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Much has been reported in the papers recently concerning the bingo industry being hit because of the smoking ban in the United Kingdom. Conditions have become so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has called for big aid to assist in keeping the businesses afloat. However can the online variation of this traditional game provide a reprieve, or might it never compare to its bricks and mortar kin?

Bingo is an established game generally played by the "blue rinse" generation. However the game lately had undergone a recent return in popularity with younger people deciding to go to the bingo parlours rather than the discos on a weekend. This is all about to be destroyed with the enacting of the smoking ban across England and Wales.

No more will gamblers be able to puff on cigarettes whilst marking off their numbers. From the summer of ‘07 all public places will no longer be allowed to permit cigarettes in their buildings and this includes Bingo halls, one of the most favored locations where people enjoy smoking.

The results of the smoking ban can already be looked at in Scotland where smoking is already not allowed in the bingo parlours. Profits have dropped and the industry is absolutely struggling for its life. But where did all the players go? Certainly they have not abandoned this age old game?

The answer is online. People know that they can wager on bingo from their computer whilst enjoying a drink and fag and still enjoy huge jackpots. This is a recent anomaly and has timed itself almost perfectly with the ban on smoking.

Of course playing on the net is unlikely to replace the communal aspect of going down to the bingo hall, but for a group of players the rules have left many bingo players with no alternative.