Much has been talked in the press just a while ago regarding the bingo industry struggling because of the anti cigarette law in Britain. Things have become so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has asked for big aid to help keep the industry afloat. However can the net variation of this traditional game provide a reprieve, or might it not compare to its bricks and mortar opposite?
Bingo has been an established game usually played by the "blue haired" generation. However the game recently had experienced a recent resurgence in popularity with younger men and women deciding to go to the bingo parlours in place of the clubs on a weekend. All this is about to get flipped on its head with the legislating of the anti smoking law all over United Kingdom.
Players will no longer be able to smoke while dabbing numbers. Beginning in the summer of 2007 every public place will not be permitted to allow cigarettes in their venues and this includes Bingo parlors, one of the most favored areas where folks enjoy smoking.
The outcome of the cigarette ban can already be looked at in Scotland where cigarettes are already banned in the bingo parlors. Numbers have plunged and the industry is literally fighting for its life. But where did the players go? Obviously they have not given up on this age old game?
The answer is on the net. Gamblers realise that they can enjoy bingo from their computer at the same time enjoying a cocktail and fag and in the end, have a chance at monstrous prizes. This is a recent development and has timed itself almost perfectly with the anti smoking law.
Of course gambling on on the net can never replace the communal part of heading over to the bingo hall, but for a group of players the governing edicts have left a lot of bingo enthusiasts with no alternative.