A lot has been reported in the papers recently regarding the bingo industry singing the blues as a consequence of the cigarette ban in England. Conditions have grown so bad that in Scotland the Bingo industry has requested big aid to help keep the businesses from going bankrupt. However will the online adaptation of this quintessential game present a lifeline, or will it not compare to its bricks and mortar equivalent?
Bingo has been an classic game normally enjoyed by the "blue haired" generation. However the game lately had undergone a recent return in appeal with younger men and women opting to visit the bingo halls rather than the clubs on a Saturday night. All this is about to change with the enforcement of the smoking ban around UK.
No longer will gamblers be allowed to smoke at the same time marking numbers. Beginning in the summer of ‘07 every public area will no longer be permitted to allow smoking in their buildings and this includes Bingo halls, which are possibly the most popular places where people like to smoke.
The effects of the anti cigarette law can already be looked at in Scotland where cigarettes are already forbidden in the bingo halls. Numbers have dropped and the business is beyond a doubt fighting for to stay alive. But where have all the players gone? Of course they have not deserted this enduring game?
The answer is online. Players know that they can participate in bingo in front of their computer while enjoying a drink and smoke and still have a chance at monstrous jackpots. This is a recent anomaly and has happened almost perfectly with the anti cigarette law.
Of course gambling on on the net can never replace the communal part of heading down to the bingo parlor, but for a demographic of people the governing edicts have left a good many bingo players with little alternative.
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