An abundance has been talked in the press just a while ago about the bingo industry struggling as a result of the cigarette ban in the United Kingdom. Conditions have grown so bad that in Scotland the Bingo industry has called for big tax cuts to help keep the businesses from going bankrupt. But does the web version of this traditional game offer a reprieve, or will it never compare to its bricks and mortar opposite?
Bingo has been an ancient game historically played by the "blue rinse" generation. In any case the game recently had witnessed a recent comeback in acceptance with younger people opting to go to the bingo parlors instead of the clubs on a weekend. This is all about to change with the introduction of the anti cigarette law throughout Britain.
Players will no longer be allowed to puff on cigarettes at the same time marking numbers. Beginning in the summer of 2007 every public place will not be permitted to allow smoking in their venues and this includes Bingo parlors, which are possibly the most favored areas where folks enjoy smoking.
The results of the anti cigarette law can already be looked at in Scotland where cigarettes are already forbidden in the bingo parlors. Players have plunged and the business is beyond a doubt struggling for its life. But where have all the players gone? Certainly they haven’t abandoned this established game?
The answer is online. Gamblers realise that they can participate in bingo from their computer while enjoying a cocktail and cigarette and in the end, enjoy monstrous cash rewards. This is a recent anomaly and has timed itself just about perfectly with the anti smoking law.
Of course gambling on on the internet will never replace the communal part of heading over to the bingo parlour, but for a demographic of people the law has left a number of bingo players with little option.
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