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A lot has been stated in the papers recently about the bingo industry struggling because of the smoking ban in the UK. Things have grown so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has requested massive tax cuts to help keep the businesses from going bankrupt. However can the online variation of this traditional game provide a salvation, or will it never compare to its real life peer?

Bingo has been an enduring game generally enjoyed by the "blue rinse" generation. For all that the game recently had witnessed a recent resurgence in appeal with younger men and women opting to visit the bingo parlours in place of the discos on a weekend. This is all about to change with the enacting of the anti cigarette law throughout United Kingdom.

Players will no longer be permitted to puff on cigarettes at the same time marking numbers. Beginning in the summer of ‘07 all public locations will no longer be permitted to allow cigarettes in their buildings and this includes Bingo parlors, which are possibly the most popular places where players enjoy smoking.

The outcome of the anti smoking law can already be observed in Scotland where smoking is already banned in the bingo parlors. Profits have dropped and the business is literally struggling for its life. But where have all the players gone? Certainly they haven’t abandoned this familiar game?

The answer is on the web. Players realize that they can enjoy bingo from their computer at the same time enjoying a drink and smoke and still enjoy massive prizes. This is a recent anomaly and has timed itself bordering on perfect with the ban on cigarettes.

Of course wagering on online is unlikely to replace the social aspect of heading over to the bingo hall, but for a group of people the governing edicts have left a good many bingo players with no choice.