An abundance has been talked in the press just a while ago concerning the bingo industry singing the blues as a consequence of the cigarette ban in the UK. Things have grown so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has called for huge tax cuts to assist in keeping the industry alive. However will the internet variation of this classic game present a lifeline, or will it not compare to its real life opposite?
Bingo has been an familiar game normally played by the "blue rinse" generation. In any case the game recently had undergone a recent return in acceptance with younger people deciding to visit the bingo parlours instead of the bars on a Friday night. This is all about to change with the enacting of the smoking ban throughout United Kingdom.
Players will no longer be able to puff on cigarettes whilst marking numbers. Beginning in the summer of ‘07 every public place will no longer be allowed to permit smoking in their venues and this includes Bingo parlors, one of the most favored locations where players enjoy smoking.
The results of the cigarette ban can already be seen in Scotland where smoking is already illegal in the bingo parlors. Numbers have dropped and the business is absolutely struggling for its life. But where have the players gone? Of course they have not abandoned this age old game?
The answer is online. Players realise that they can gamble on bingo in front of their computer while enjoying a drink and cigarette and in the end, enjoy huge jackpots. This is a recent development and has happened bordering on perfect with the ban on smoking.
Of course wagering on on the net is unlikely to replace the collective part of going over to the bingo parlour, but for a demographic of men and women the governing edicts have left a good many bingo enthusiasts with no option.
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