Oct 202021
Much has been reported in the papers not long ago concerning the bingo industry being hit as a consequence of the cigarette ban in the UK. Things have become so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has asked for big aid to help keep the industry from going bankrupt. However will the internet adaptation of this classic game present a escape, or might it not compare to its bricks and mortar peer?
Bingo is an age old game usually played by the "blue rinse" generation. For all that the game of late had undergone a recent increase in popularity with younger men and women opting to visit the bingo halls in place of the discos on a Friday night. All this is about to be reversed with the enforcement of the anti cigarette law throughout UK.
Players will no longer be permitted to smoke whilst marking numbers. From the summer of ‘07 all public places will no longer be permitted to allow smoking in their venues and this includes Bingo parlors, one of the most common areas where folks enjoy smoking.
The effects of the cigarette ban can already be observed in Scotland where cigarettes are already illegal in the bingo parlors. Players have plummeted and the industry is literally fighting for its life. But where did all the players go? Of course they have not given up on this familiar game?
The answer is online. Players are now realizing that they can gamble on bingo from their computer while enjoying a beer and cig and in the end, have a chance at monstrous prizes. This is a recent phenomenon and has happened bordering on perfect with the anti smoking law.
Of course betting on on the internet is unlikely to replace the communal aspect of going down to the bingo parlor, but for a group of men and women the law has left a lot of bingo players with no choice.
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