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Much has been stated in the papers just a while ago regarding the bingo industry being hurt as a consequence of the smoking ban in Britain. Conditions have grown so poor that in Scotland the Bingo industry has demanded big aid to help keep the industry alive. However can the online variation of this quintessential game provide a escape, or will it in no way compare to its land based relative?

Bingo is an established game normally played by the "blue rinse" generation. Although the game of late had undergone a recent return in acceptance with younger men and women deciding to hit the bingo parlors in place of the discos on a Friday night. All this is about to get flipped on its head with the enacting of the anti smoking law across Britain.

Players will no longer be allowed to smoke at the same time marking off their numbers. From the summer of 2007 all public locations will not be permitted to allow cigarettes in their venues and this includes Bingo parlours, one of the most favored places where people enjoy smoking.

The effects of the anti smoking law can already be felt in Scotland where cigarettes are already illegal in the bingo parlors. Numbers have plummeted and the business is literally fighting for its life. But where have all the players gone? Of course they have not deserted this age old game?

The answer is on the web. People realize that they can wager on bingo using their computer at the same time enjoying a cocktail and smoke and in the end, enjoy big jackpots. This is a recent phenomenon and has timed itself just about perfectly with the anti cigarette law.

Of course gambling on on the internet will never replace the social part of going down to the bingo parlour, but for a group of people the governing edicts have left a good many bingo enthusiasts with little option.