27
November
Written by Lily.
Posted in: Bingo
An abundance has been talked in the press recently regarding the bingo industry struggling as a result of the smoking ban in Britain. Conditions have become so bad that in Scotland the Bingo industry has called for huge aid to assist in keeping the industry from going bankrupt. However can the online variation of this classic game offer a escape, or will it never compare to its land based kin?
Bingo has been an ancient game usually played by the "blue rinse" generation. However the game of late had undergone a recent resurgence in acceptance with younger men and women deciding to go to the bingo parlors in place of the bars on a Friday night. All this is about to be reversed with the enforcement of the anti cigarette law across UK.
Players will no longer be allowed to smoke while dabbing numbers. Starting in the summer of 2007 every public place will no longer be permitted to allow smoking in their venues and this includes Bingo parlours, which are possibly the most favored locations where players enjoy smoking.
The outcome of the smoking ban can already be felt in Scotland where cigarettes are already illegal in the bingo halls. Players have plummeted and the industry is literally fighting for its life. But where have the players gone? Of course they haven’t cast aside this ancient game?
The answer is on the web. Players know that they can play bingo from their computer whilst enjoying a beverage and smoke and still enjoy massive prizes. This is a recent anomaly and has happened bordering on perfect with the ban on cigarettes.
Of course playing on the internet is unlikely to replace the collective part of heading over to the bingo parlor, but for a group of men and women the law has left a number of bingo players with little alternative.
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