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A lot has been talked in the press not long ago regarding the bingo industry being hurt as a result of the smoking ban in England. Conditions have become so bad that in Scotland the Bingo industry has demanded huge aid to help keep the industry from going bankrupt. But will the internet version of this classic game provide a lifeline, or might it not compare to its real life peer?

Bingo has been an established game generally enjoyed by the "blue rinse" generation. For all that the game lately had seen a recent comeback in appeal with younger men and women deciding to visit the bingo parlours in place of the discos on a Saturday night. This is all about to be reversed with the enacting of the cigarette ban all over Britain.

Players will no longer be permitted to smoke while dabbing numbers. Beginning in the summer of 2007 all public areas will not be permitted to allow cigarettes in their venues and this includes Bingo parlors, one of the most favored places where people like to puff on cigarettes.

The results of the cigarette ban can already be observed in Scotland where cigarettes are already forbidden in the bingo halls. Numbers have plunged and the business is absolutely struggling for to stay alive. But where have all the players gone? Obviously they haven’t given up on this familiar game?

The answer is online. People realise that they can play bingo using their computer at the same time enjoying a cocktail and cig and in the end, enjoy monstrous prizes. This is a recent anomaly and has happened just about perfectly with the ban on cigarettes.

Of course playing on the web can never replace the collective aspect of going over to the bingo hall, but for a demographic of people the rules have left a number of bingo enthusiasts with no choice.