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An abundance has been reported in the papers not long ago regarding the bingo industry being hit as a consequence of the cigarette ban in the United Kingdom. Conditions have grown so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has asked for huge aid to help keep the industry alive. However can the web variation of this traditional game present a reprieve, or might it never compare to its land based equivalent?

Bingo has been an established game usually played by the "blue rinse" generation. Although the game recently had witnessed a recent comeback in acceptance with younger people deciding to go to the bingo halls in place of the bars on a Friday night. All this is about to change with the introduction of the smoking ban throughout England and Wales.

Players will no longer be able to smoke at the same time dabbing numbers. From the summer of 2007 all public locations will no longer be permitted to allow smoking in their buildings and this includes Bingo parlours, which are possibly the most common places where players like to smoke.

The results of the cigarette ban can already be seen in Scotland where cigarettes are already illegal in the bingo parlours. Profits have dropped and the industry is literally struggling for to stay alive. But where did the players go? Surely they haven’t forgotten this familiar game?

The answer is on the web. Players realise that they can bet on bingo using their computer whilst enjoying a cocktail and smoke and in the end, have a chance at massive jackpots. This is a recent anomaly and has timed itself almost perfectly with the ban on smoking.

Of course gambling on on the web is unlikely to replace the social part of heading over to the bingo hall, but for a group of people the rules have left many bingo players with no choice.

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