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Much has been written in the papers just a while ago concerning the bingo industry being hit as a consequence of the cigarette ban in Britain. Things have become so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has called for huge aid to help keep the businesses from going bankrupt. However will the online variation of this traditional game present a escape, or might it not compare to its real life peer?

Bingo has been an ancient game normally enjoyed by the "blue haired" generation. However the game of late had experienced a recent comeback in popularity with younger men and women opting to visit the bingo halls rather than the clubs on a Friday night. All this is about to be reversed with the enacting of the anti smoking law around UK.

Players will no longer be allowed to puff on cigarettes whilst marking off their numbers. Beginning in the summer of ‘07 all public places will no longer be allowed to permit smoking in their buildings and this includes Bingo parlors, which are possibly the most common places where players like to smoke.

The effects of the cigarette ban can already be felt in Scotland where cigarettes are already not allowed in the bingo parlours. Players have dropped and the industry is literally fighting for to stay alive. But where have the players gone? Surely they have not abandoned this age old game?

The answer is on the internet. Players realise that they can participate in bingo from their computer at the same time enjoying a drink and fag and in the end, enjoy monstrous prizes. This is a recent anomaly and has happened bordering on perfect with the anti smoking law.

Of course playing on the net is unlikely to replace the communal aspect of heading over to the bingo hall, but for a group of people the rules have left a number of bingo players with no option.

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