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Much has been talked in the press not long ago about the bingo industry being hurt as a result of the anti cigarette law in Britain. Conditions have become so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has demanded massive tax cuts to assist in keeping the businesses from going bankrupt. However does the web version of this quintessential game offer a salvation, or might it never compare to its bricks and mortar peer?

Bingo is an established game historically played by the "blue rinse" generation. In any case the game of late had experienced a recent return in acceptance with younger men and women opting to go to the bingo parlours rather than the discos on a Saturday night. This is all about to be destroyed with the enacting of the anti cigarette law across UK.

Players will no longer be able to puff on cigarettes at the same time marking numbers. From the summer of ‘07 all public areas will not be allowed to permit smoking in their venues and this includes Bingo parlors, one of the most favored areas where many people like to smoke.

The results of the cigarette ban can already be looked at in Scotland where cigarettes are already not allowed in the bingo parlors. Players have dropped and the industry is literally fighting for its life. But where have all the players gone? Certainly they haven’t abandoned this established game?

The answer is on the internet. Players know that they can wager on bingo in front of their computer at the same time enjoying a cocktail and fag and in the end, have a chance at huge cash rewards. This is a recent development and has happened bordering on perfect with the anti cigarette law.

Of course gambling on on the internet can never replace the collective part of heading down to the bingo parlor, but for a demographic of players the law has left a lot of bingo enthusiasts with little option.