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An abundance has been talked in the press just a while ago concerning the bingo industry struggling as a consequence of the smoking ban in the United Kingdom. Things have grown so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has requested massive tax breaks to help keep the businesses from going bankrupt. But does the web variation of this quintessential game present a escape, or might it in no way compare to its real life opposite?
Bingo has been an established game generally played by the "blue rinse" generation. For all that the game lately had experienced a recent increase in acceptance with younger people deciding to visit the bingo parlours instead of the clubs on a Saturday night. This is all about to change with the legislating of the anti cigarette law throughout United Kingdom.
Players will no longer be able to smoke at the same time marking numbers. Starting in the summer of 2007 all public areas will no longer be allowed to permit smoking in their locations and this includes Bingo halls, one of the most popular locations where people enjoy smoking.
The results of the anti smoking law can already be looked at in Scotland where smoking is already forbidden in the bingo parlours. Profits have dropped and the industry is literally fighting for its life. But where have all the players gone? Of course they haven’t cast aside this ancient game?
The answer is on the internet. Gamblers realize that they can wager on bingo from their computer whilst enjoying a beverage and cigarette and in the end, have a chance at monstrous jackpots. This is a recent anomaly and has happened bordering on perfect with the ban on cigarettes.
Of course betting on on the web is unlikely to replace the communal aspect of going over to the bingo parlour, but for a demographic of players the law has left a number of bingo players with little alternative.
