An abundance has been reported in the papers just a while ago concerning the bingo industry being hurt as a result of the smoking ban in England. Things have grown so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has demanded huge aid to help keep the businesses afloat. However does the internet version of this traditional game provide a escape, or will it never compare to its land based equivalent?
Bingo has been an familiar game usually played by the "blue haired" generation. In any case the game lately had seen a recent increase in acceptance with younger men and women opting to go to the bingo parlors in place of the bars on a Saturday night. All this is about to be destroyed with the enforcement of the anti cigarette law throughout Britain.
Players will no longer be allowed to smoke at the same time marking numbers. Beginning in the summer of 2007 every public location will no longer be permitted to allow cigarettes in their locations and this includes Bingo parlors, which are possibly the most favored locations where people like to puff on cigarettes.
The outcome of the cigarette ban can already be felt in Scotland where smoking is already barred in the bingo parlours. Profits have plunged and the industry is beyond a doubt struggling for to stay alive. But where have the players gone? Of course they have not cast aside this age old game?
The answer is on the internet. People know that they can gamble on bingo from their computer whilst enjoying a beverage and smoke and in the end, have a chance at huge jackpots. This is a recent phenomenon and has timed itself just about perfectly with the anti smoking law.
Of course playing on the net is unlikely to replace the social aspect of going down to the bingo parlor, but for a demographic of players the law has left a number of bingo players with no alternative.
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