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Scratchcards are sold at the tobacco counter in large supermarkets and the checkout in newsagents. The duplicity of tobacco products legally needing to be sold in plain packets, and being totally hidden from view, where as the scratchcards stands tall and proud in their displaycase smack bang in the eyeline, sparkling with multi-coloured "happy vibe" visualisation, is not lost on us I am sure.

If poker and baccarat are the broudsheets, then what are financial derivitives I wonder? Warrants, covered warrants, spread betting...novels?