Strutt has invested his pool of winnings mostly in federal government-backed debt securities rather than in the insurance annuities most statelotteries buy.
Under the proposal, statelotteries would be prohibited from selling tickets online, although some games would be allowed in public places over public networks.
Industry special pleading helps square legislators' hostility to online betting with their willingness to allow online statelotteries and online betting on horse racing.
It has allowed practice jerseys to be used as inventory for sponsors for the first time and opened up once-off-limits licensing deals with statelotteries and liquor labels.
He has since back-tracked to propose a boycott of state-run lotteries, but not before winning the support of a respected employers' representative for his more radical idea.
Even the new bill makes exemptions for those who use the internet to place bets on horse races or buy tickets in lotteries (which raise large amounts for state coffers).
Like lotteries, which can be viewed as harmful but also help to fund state budgets, cigarettes are not a golden goose that one stubs out randomly or quickly.