An abundance has been stated in the papers just a while ago about the bingo industry being hurt as a result of the smoking ban in the UK. Things have grown so bad that in Scotland the Bingo industry has requested massive tax cuts to assist in keeping the businesses from going bankrupt. But will the net adaptation of this quintessential game present a reprieve, or will it not compare to its real life kin?
Bingo has been an familiar game normally enjoyed by the "blue haired" generation. Although the game lately had undergone a recent return in acceptance with younger men and women deciding to visit the bingo parlors in place of the clubs on a Saturday night. All this is about to get flipped on its head with the enforcement of the anti cigarette law all over UK.
Players will no longer be able to smoke at the same time dabbing numbers. Beginning in the summer of 2007 all public areas will no longer be allowed to permit cigarettes in their venues and this includes Bingo halls, one of the most common locations where players enjoy smoking.
The effects of the cigarette ban can already be observed in Scotland where cigarettes are already barred in the bingo halls. Players have plummeted and the industry is literally fighting for its life. But where have all the players gone? Of course they haven’t given up on this established game?
The answer is on the net. People are now realizing that they can wager on bingo from their computer at the same time enjoying a beverage and fag and in the end, have a chance at huge jackpots. This is a recent anomaly and has timed itself almost perfectly with the anti cigarette law.
Of course playing on the internet is unlikely to replace the communal portion of going over to the bingo parlour, but for a group of men and women the law has left many bingo players with little option.
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