Can the Anti Smoking Law in the United Kingdom Drive Bingo Enthusiasts On to the Web?
An abundance has been written in the press recently concerning the bingo industry singing the blues because of the smoking ban in Britain. Things have grown so poor that in Scotland the Bingo industry has asked for huge aid to assist in keeping the businesses afloat. However will the web variation of this classic game present a salvation, or will it never compare to its bricks and mortar kin?
Bingo is an enduring game normally enjoyed by the "blue rinse" generation. In any case the game of late had undergone a recent resurgence in acceptance with younger members of society deciding to visit the bingo parlors in place of the clubs on a weekend. All this is about to get flipped on its head with the enacting of the cigarette ban all over England and Wales.
Players will no longer be able to smoke while dabbing numbers. From the summer of ‘07 all public locations will no longer be permitted to allow cigarettes in their buildings and this includes Bingo halls, one of the most popular places where folks enjoy smoking.
The effects of the anti smoking law can already be looked at in Scotland where smoking is already not permitted in the bingo parlors. Players have plummeted and the industry is beyond a doubt struggling for to stay alive. But where did all the players go? Obviously they have not cast aside this familiar game?
The answer is on the internet. Gamblers know that they can enjoy bingo in front of their computer at the same time enjoying a beer and cig and in the end, enjoy big cash rewards. This is a recent development and has happened bordering on perfect with the anti smoking law.
Of course betting on on the net could never replace the collective aspect of going down to the bingo parlour, but for a demographic of people the law has left a good many bingo enthusiasts with no alternative.
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