Could the Cigarette Ban in the UK Take Bingo Players On to the Internet?
Much has been written in the press not long ago concerning the bingo industry being hit because of the anti smoking law in England. Conditions have grown so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has demanded massive tax breaks to assist in keeping the industry from going bankrupt. However will the net variation of this classic game present a salvation, or will it never compare to its bricks and mortar kin?
Bingo is an classic game usually enjoyed by the "blue rinse" generation. Although the game lately had experienced a recent return in appeal with younger men and women deciding to hit the bingo parlors instead of the discos on a weekend. This is all about to change with the legislating of the cigarette ban around United Kingdom.
Players will no longer be permitted to puff on cigarettes while dabbing numbers. Beginning in the summer of 2007 every public location will no longer be allowed to permit cigarettes in their venues and this includes Bingo halls, one of the most favored locations where folks enjoy smoking.
The effects of the smoking ban can already be seen in Scotland where smoking is already not allowed in the bingo parlours. Players have plummeted and the industry is literally struggling for its life. But where have the players gone? Obviously they haven’t forgotten this classic game?
The answer is on the web. Players realise that they can enjoy bingo using their computer at the same time enjoying a beverage and fag and still have a chance at big prizes. This is a recent development and has timed itself just about perfectly with the anti cigarette law.
Of course wagering on on the net can never replace the collective part of heading down to the bingo hall, but for a demographic of players the law has left a number of bingo players with little choice.
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