Posted by Jace | Posted in Bingo | Posted on 03-07-2024
Much has been talked in the papers just a while ago concerning the bingo industry being hurt because of the cigarette ban in the United Kingdom. Things have become so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has demanded massive aid to assist in keeping the businesses from going bankrupt. However does the web version of this classic game present a escape, or might it never compare to its land based opposite?
Bingo is an classic game normally enjoyed by the "blue rinse" generation. For all that the game of late had witnessed a recent comeback in appeal with younger people opting to visit the bingo parlors in place of the clubs on a Saturday night. All this is about to get flipped on its head with the introduction of the anti cigarette law all over UK.
Players will no longer be permitted to smoke whilst marking off their numbers. Starting in the summer of ‘07 every public location will no longer be permitted to allow cigarettes in their buildings and this includes Bingo halls, one of the most common places where many people enjoy smoking.
The outcome of the anti smoking law can already be looked at in Scotland where cigarettes are already not permitted in the bingo parlors. Players have plummeted and the business is absolutely struggling for its life. But where did the players go? Certainly they have not cast aside this enduring game?
The answer is on the net. People realise that they can play bingo in front of their computer whilst enjoying a drink and cigarette and in the end, enjoy big cash rewards. This is a recent development and has happened just about perfectly with the ban on smoking.
Of course playing on the internet can never replace the communal aspect of going down to the bingo parlor, but for a group of players the law has left a number of bingo players with little option.