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A lot has been stated in the press just a while ago about the bingo industry being hurt because of the cigarette ban in the United Kingdom. Conditions have grown so bad that in Scotland the Bingo industry has requested huge tax breaks to assist in keeping the businesses from going bankrupt. However can the web variation of this quintessential game offer a lifeline, or might it in no way compare to its bricks and mortar equivalent?

Bingo is an age old game normally enjoyed by the "blue rinse" generation. For all that the game recently had seen a recent return in popularity with younger men and women opting to visit the bingo halls in place of the discos on a Friday night. All this is about to be destroyed with the introduction of the cigarette ban around England and Wales.

Players will no longer be able to smoke at the same time marking off their numbers. Beginning in the summer of ‘07 every public place will not be allowed to permit smoking in their buildings and this includes Bingo parlours, which are possibly the most favorite areas where people enjoy smoking.

The results of the smoking ban can already be looked at in Scotland where smoking is already forbidden in the bingo parlours. Numbers have plummeted and the business is beyond a doubt fighting for its life. But where have all the players gone? Obviously they haven’t deserted this enduring game?

The answer is online. Gamblers are now realizing that they can play bingo from their computer at the same time enjoying a cocktail and smoke and in the end, enjoy monstrous jackpots. This is a recent phenomenon and has happened just about perfectly with the ban on cigarettes.

Of course playing on the internet is unlikely to replace the social part of going over to the bingo parlour, but for a demographic of players the governing edicts have left a good many bingo enthusiasts with little alternative.