Will the Cigarette Ban in Britain Take Bingo Enthusiasts On to the Web?
An abundance has been written in the papers just a while ago about the bingo industry being hurt because of the cigarette ban in England. Things have grown so poor that in Scotland the Bingo industry has called for big tax cuts to help keep the industry afloat. But can the internet variation of this classic game provide a reprieve, or will it never compare to its bricks and mortar relative?
Bingo is an age old game usually enjoyed by the "blue rinse" generation. In any case the game lately had seen a recent increase in appeal with younger people opting to visit the bingo parlors in place of the discos on a Saturday night. All this is about to be destroyed with the enacting of the anti smoking law across Britain.
Players will no longer be permitted to puff on cigarettes at the same time marking numbers. Beginning in the summer of ‘07 all public locations will not be allowed to permit cigarettes in their locations and this includes Bingo halls, which are possibly the most common areas where folks like to puff on cigarettes.
The effects of the anti cigarette law can already be seen in Scotland where smoking is already banned in the bingo parlors. Players have dropped and the business is literally struggling for to stay alive. But where have all the players gone? Certainly they have not cast aside this age old game?
The answer is on the net. Players know that they can gamble on bingo using their computer at the same time enjoying a beer and smoke and in the end, enjoy big prizes. This is a recent anomaly and has timed itself almost perfectly with the anti cigarette law.
Of course playing on the internet could never replace the social aspect of heading over to the bingo parlor, but for a group of people the governing edicts have left a lot of bingo players with no choice.
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