A lot has been written in the papers just a while ago concerning the bingo industry struggling as a consequence of the smoking ban in Britain. Things have become so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has asked for huge aid to help keep the industry afloat. However can the online adaptation of this classic game provide a escape, or might it in no way compare to its real life kin?
Bingo has been an established game normally played by the "blue rinse" generation. For all that the game recently had undergone a recent increase in popularity with younger people opting to go to the bingo parlours instead of the discos on a Friday night. All this is about to change with the legislating of the smoking ban all over Britain.
Players will no longer be permitted to puff on cigarettes at the same time marking numbers. From the summer of ‘07 all public areas will no longer be permitted to allow smoking in their venues and this includes Bingo parlours, which are possibly the most popular areas where folks like to smoke.
The results of the anti smoking law can already be felt in Scotland where cigarettes are already not permitted in the bingo parlors. Players have plunged and the business is absolutely struggling for to stay alive. But where did all the players go? Obviously they have not cast aside this ancient game?
The answer is on the web. Players know that they can wager on bingo from their computer at the same time enjoying a cocktail and cigarette and in the end, enjoy massive prizes. This is a recent anomaly and has happened almost perfectly with the anti smoking law.
Of course gambling on on the net is unlikely to replace the communal portion of heading down to the bingo parlour, but for a demographic of men and women the law has left a lot of bingo enthusiasts with no choice.