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A lot has been stated in the papers recently concerning the bingo industry struggling as a consequence of the cigarette ban in Britain. Conditions have become so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has requested big aid to help keep the businesses from going bankrupt. However will the web variation of this traditional game provide a salvation, or might it not compare to its bricks and mortar opposite?

Bingo has been an age old game normally enjoyed by the "blue rinse" generation. Although the game recently had experienced a recent increase in popularity with younger people deciding to hit the bingo parlours in place of the clubs on a Friday night. All this is about to change with the introduction of the cigarette ban around Britain.

Players will no longer be permitted to puff on cigarettes whilst marking numbers. Beginning in the summer of 2007 all public areas will no longer be allowed to permit cigarettes in their venues and this includes Bingo halls, one of the most popular locations where folks enjoy smoking.

The outcome of the anti smoking law can already be looked at in Scotland where smoking is already forbidden in the bingo parlours. Numbers have plunged and the business is beyond a doubt struggling for to stay alive. But where have all the players gone? Of course they have not deserted this established game?

The answer is online. Gamblers know that they can participate in bingo from their computer while enjoying a beer and cig and still enjoy massive jackpots. This is a recent development and has timed itself bordering on perfect with the anti cigarette law.

Of course wagering on on the web is unlikely to replace the social part of heading over to the bingo hall, but for a demographic of players the law has left a good many bingo players with no choice.

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