Can the Anti Cigarette Law in England Drive Bingo Players Online?
Much has been reported in the press recently about the bingo industry struggling as a result of the smoking ban in Britain. Conditions have become so poor that in Scotland the Bingo industry has requested massive aid to help keep the businesses from going bankrupt. But can the online variation of this quintessential game provide a reprieve, or will it never compare to its land based opposite?
Bingo has been an familiar game usually enjoyed by the "blue haired" generation. However the game lately had experienced a recent comeback in popularity with younger men and women opting to visit the bingo parlours rather than the bars on a Saturday night. All this is about to be destroyed with the legislating of the cigarette ban throughout UK.
Players will no longer be allowed to smoke at the same time marking numbers. Starting in the summer of ‘07 every public area will no longer be permitted to allow cigarettes in their locations and this includes Bingo halls, one of the most popular areas where people enjoy smoking.
The effects of the anti cigarette law can already be felt in Scotland where smoking is already illegal in the bingo parlours. Profits have plummeted and the industry is beyond a doubt struggling for its life. But where have all the players gone? Of course they haven’t cast aside this age old game?
The answer is on the net. People realize that they can wager on bingo using their computer whilst enjoying a beer and fag and still enjoy huge jackpots. This is a recent development and has happened almost perfectly with the ban on smoking.
Of course gambling on on the web will never replace the communal part of heading over to the bingo parlour, but for a group of people the rules have left a good many bingo players with little alternative.
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