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A lot has been reported in the papers not long ago concerning the bingo industry being hurt as a result of the cigarette ban in England. Conditions have grown so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has asked for massive tax cuts to help keep the businesses from going bankrupt. But can the online version of this quintessential game offer a escape, or will it never compare to its bricks and mortar equivalent?

Bingo is an familiar game normally enjoyed by the "blue haired" generation. Although the game recently had experienced a recent resurgence in acceptance with younger men and women opting to go to the bingo parlors rather than the bars on a weekend. All this is about to be destroyed with the introduction of the cigarette ban throughout United Kingdom.

Players will no longer be able to puff on cigarettes whilst marking numbers. From the summer of 2007 all public locations will no longer be allowed to permit smoking in their locations and this includes Bingo parlors, which are possibly the most popular locations where many people enjoy smoking.

The outcome of the anti smoking law can already be seen in Scotland where smoking is already illegal in the bingo halls. Players have plunged and the industry is beyond a doubt fighting for to stay alive. But where did all the players go? Certainly they have not cast aside this familiar game?

The answer is on the internet. Gamblers realize that they can wager on bingo in front of their computer at the same time enjoying a drink and fag and in the end, have a chance at big cash rewards. This is a recent anomaly and has timed itself just about perfectly with the anti cigarette law.

Of course gambling on online will never replace the collective aspect of heading over to the bingo parlour, but for a group of men and women the law has left a lot of bingo players with little alternative.