Much has been talked in the press recently concerning the bingo industry struggling because of the smoking ban in England. Conditions have become so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has requested massive aid to help keep the businesses from going bankrupt. However does the online variation of this quintessential game present a escape, or might it not compare to its real life relative?
Bingo has been an established game usually played by the "blue rinse" generation. However the game of late had undergone a recent return in appeal with younger people deciding to go to the bingo parlors in place of the bars on a Saturday night. All this is about to be destroyed with the enforcement of the anti smoking law throughout UK.
Players will no longer be allowed to puff on cigarettes while marking numbers. Beginning in the summer of ‘07 all public places will not be allowed to permit smoking in their locations and this includes Bingo parlours, which are possibly the most favored places where folks like to puff on cigarettes.
The results of the smoking ban can already be felt in Scotland where cigarettes are already not permitted in the bingo parlours. Players have plunged and the industry is literally fighting for to stay alive. But where did the players go? Of course they have not abandoned this classic game?
The answer is on the net. People realise that they can enjoy bingo in front of their computer whilst enjoying a cocktail and smoke and in the end, enjoy huge prizes. This is a recent development and has timed itself bordering on perfect with the ban on smoking.
Of course betting on on the internet is unlikely to replace the social portion of heading down to the bingo parlour, but for a group of men and women the governing edicts have left a good many bingo players with no option.
August 8th, 2022
Tamara
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