An abundance has been reported in the press just a while ago regarding the bingo industry being hurt because of the smoking ban in Britain. Conditions have become so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has demanded big tax breaks to assist in keeping the industry from going bankrupt. However will the net variation of this quintessential game offer a reprieve, or might it in no way compare to its land based equivalent?
Bingo has been an classic game generally enjoyed by the "blue rinse" generation. For all that the game lately had witnessed a recent comeback in appeal with younger members of society deciding to visit the bingo parlors in place of the discos on a weekend. All this is about to get flipped on its head with the legislating of the anti cigarette law around United Kingdom.
Players will no longer be allowed to smoke at the same time dabbing numbers. Starting in the summer of 2007 every public area will not be allowed to permit smoking in their buildings and this includes Bingo parlours, one of the most common locations where many people like to puff on cigarettes.
The outcome of the anti cigarette law can already be felt in Scotland where cigarettes are already not allowed in the bingo halls. Players have plunged and the industry is beyond a doubt struggling for to stay alive. But where have all the players gone? Of course they haven’t given up on this ancient game?
The answer is on the web. People realise that they can enjoy bingo in front of their computer at the same time enjoying a cocktail and cigarette and still enjoy massive prizes. This is a recent anomaly and has timed itself almost perfectly with the anti cigarette law.
Of course gambling on on the internet is unlikely to replace the social part of going down to the bingo parlour, but for a demographic of players the governing edicts have left a lot of bingo players with no option.
