Much has been talked in the papers just a while ago about the bingo industry being hurt because of the anti cigarette law in England. Conditions have grown so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has asked for huge tax breaks to assist in keeping the businesses from going bankrupt. However does the web version of this classic game provide a reprieve, or will it never compare to its real life opposite?
Bingo is an classic game usually played by the "blue rinse" generation. Although the game of late had experienced a recent comeback in appeal with younger people opting to visit the bingo halls rather than the discos on a weekend. This is all about to be reversed with the legislating of the anti cigarette law all over England and Wales.
Players will no longer be permitted to puff on cigarettes while marking off their numbers. Beginning in the summer of 2007 all public areas will no longer be permitted to allow smoking in their locations and this includes Bingo parlors, one of the most common locations where folks enjoy smoking.
The outcome of the anti smoking law can already be looked at in Scotland where cigarettes are already banned in the bingo parlors. Players have dropped and the industry is absolutely fighting for its life. But where have the players gone? Certainly they have not abandoned this age old game?
The answer is online. People realize that they can participate in bingo using their computer at the same time enjoying a beer and smoke and in the end, have a chance at massive cash rewards. This is a recent anomaly and has timed itself almost perfectly with the anti smoking law.
Of course gambling on online will never replace the communal part of going down to the bingo parlor, but for a group of people the law has left many bingo enthusiasts with no alternative.
