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An abundance has been written in the press recently about the bingo industry struggling as a result of the smoking ban in England. Conditions have become so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has requested massive tax breaks to help keep the businesses from going bankrupt. However does the online adaptation of this traditional game provide a reprieve, or will it never compare to its real life equivalent?

Bingo has been an ancient game normally played by the "blue haired" generation. However the game recently had experienced a recent increase in acceptance with younger men and women opting to go to the bingo halls in place of the clubs on a Saturday night. All this is about to be destroyed with the enforcement of the anti cigarette law around UK.

No more will players be able to smoke at the same time marking off their numbers. Beginning in the summer of ‘07 all public areas will not be permitted to allow cigarettes in their venues and this includes Bingo parlors, one of the most common places where players like to smoke.

The results of the anti cigarette law can already be looked at in Scotland where cigarettes are already barred in the bingo parlours. Numbers have plummeted and the business is absolutely struggling for its life. But where did all the players go? Certainly they haven’t deserted this established game?

The answer is on the internet. People are now realizing that they can gamble on bingo using their computer while enjoying a cocktail and fag and in the end, enjoy massive cash rewards. This is a recent development and has happened just about perfectly with the ban on smoking.

Of course playing on the net will never replace the social part of going down to the bingo hall, but for a group of players the law has left a lot of bingo players with no option.