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A lot has been talked in the papers just a while ago about the bingo industry singing the blues because of the anti cigarette law in Britain. Conditions have grown so poor that in Scotland the Bingo industry has asked for big aid to help keep the businesses from going bankrupt. But can the net variation of this classic game present a reprieve, or will it never compare to its real life opposite?

Bingo is an established game normally played by the "blue haired" generation. However the game lately had witnessed a recent return in appeal with younger members of society deciding to hit the bingo parlours rather than the discos on a Saturday night. All this is about to get flipped on its head with the enacting of the anti cigarette law across England and Wales.

Players will no longer be allowed to smoke at the same time marking numbers. From the summer of ‘07 all public locations will not be allowed to permit cigarettes in their buildings and this includes Bingo parlors, which are possibly the most favored locations where players enjoy smoking.

The effects of the cigarette ban can already be looked at in Scotland where cigarettes are already illegal in the bingo halls. Numbers have plummeted and the business is literally struggling for to stay alive. But where have the players gone? Surely they have not deserted this established game?

The answer is on the web. Gamblers are now realizing that they can bet on bingo from their computer whilst enjoying a drink and smoke and in the end, enjoy huge prizes. This is a recent development and has timed itself bordering on perfect with the anti cigarette law.

Of course gambling on on the web is unlikely to replace the collective part of going down to the bingo parlour, but for a group of people the law has left many bingo players with no option.