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An abundance has been talked in the press recently about the bingo industry struggling as a result of the smoking ban in Britain. Conditions have grown so bad that in Scotland the Bingo industry has asked for huge tax cuts to help keep the businesses from going bankrupt. However does the online variation of this quintessential game provide a lifeline, or will it not compare to its bricks and mortar opposite?

Bingo has been an age old game usually enjoyed by the "blue rinse" generation. For all that the game of late had seen a recent resurgence in acceptance with younger men and women opting to hit the bingo parlors rather than the clubs on a Saturday night. All this is about to be destroyed with the enacting of the smoking ban around UK.

Players will no longer be allowed to puff on cigarettes while dabbing numbers. Beginning in the summer of 2007 every public place will no longer be allowed to permit smoking in their venues and this includes Bingo parlors, which are possibly the most favored locations where players like to puff on cigarettes.

The outcome of the cigarette ban can already be looked at in Scotland where smoking is already forbidden in the bingo parlors. Numbers have dropped and the business is absolutely struggling for to stay alive. But where have all the players gone? Obviously they haven’t deserted this age old game?

The answer is on the internet. Players realize that they can play bingo from their computer whilst enjoying a beverage and smoke and in the end, have a chance at monstrous jackpots. This is a recent phenomenon and has happened almost perfectly with the anti cigarette law.

Of course gambling on online is unlikely to replace the collective part of heading over to the bingo parlour, but for a group of men and women the governing edicts have left a number of bingo players with no alternative.

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