Feb 182025
An abundance has been written in the press recently about the bingo industry singing the blues because of the anti smoking law in Britain. Conditions have grown so poor that in Scotland the Bingo industry has requested huge tax cuts to help keep the industry afloat. However will the internet adaptation of this traditional game offer a lifeline, or might it never compare to its bricks and mortar kin?
Bingo is an age old game generally played by the "blue rinse" generation. For all that the game of late had experienced a recent resurgence in appeal with younger members of society deciding to hit the bingo parlors instead of the bars on a Saturday night. All this is about to change with the enacting of the smoking ban across UK.
Players will no longer be permitted to smoke while marking numbers. Starting in the summer of 2007 all public locations will no longer be allowed to permit smoking in their venues and this includes Bingo parlors, one of the most favorite places where people enjoy smoking.
The results of the smoking ban can already be looked at in Scotland where cigarettes are already forbidden in the bingo halls. Players have dropped and the business is absolutely struggling for its life. But where did all the players go? Of course they have not abandoned this established game?
The answer is online. People realise that they can enjoy bingo using their computer while enjoying a beverage and cigarette and still have a chance at big prizes. This is a recent anomaly and has timed itself just about perfectly with the anti cigarette law.
Of course wagering on online could never replace the social portion of heading over to the bingo parlor, but for a group of people the governing edicts have left a good many bingo enthusiasts with no choice.
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