Can the Anti Cigarette Law in the UK Take Bingo Players On to the Web?
An abundance has been written in the papers not long ago regarding the bingo industry struggling as a consequence of the anti cigarette law in Britain. Conditions have grown so poor that in Scotland the Bingo industry has called for big aid to help keep the businesses afloat. However can the online variation of this classic game present a reprieve, or will it in no way compare to its real life opposite?
Bingo has been an familiar game normally enjoyed by the "blue rinse" generation. In any case the game of late had undergone a recent comeback in appeal with younger members of society deciding to go to the bingo parlors in place of the clubs on a Saturday night. All this is about to get flipped on its head with the enacting of the cigarette ban around England and Wales.
Players will no longer be allowed to puff on cigarettes at the same time dabbing numbers. Beginning in the summer of 2007 all public areas will no longer be permitted to allow smoking in their buildings and this includes Bingo parlours, one of the most favorite locations where many people like to puff on cigarettes.
The outcome of the cigarette ban can already be observed in Scotland where smoking is already illegal in the bingo parlors. Profits have plummeted and the business is literally fighting for its life. But where have the players gone? Of course they haven’t deserted this age old game?
The answer is on the net. Players realise that they can play bingo in front of their computer at the same time enjoying a beer and smoke and in the end, have a chance at big prizes. This is a recent development and has timed itself just about perfectly with the ban on smoking.
Of course playing on the internet will never replace the communal aspect of heading over to the bingo hall, but for a group of men and women the governing edicts have left a good many bingo enthusiasts with little choice.
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