A lot has been reported in the papers just a while ago regarding the bingo industry singing the blues because of the cigarette ban in the UK. Conditions have grown so poor that in Scotland the Bingo industry has demanded huge tax cuts to help keep the businesses from going bankrupt. However can the web adaptation of this traditional game provide a salvation, or might it not compare to its real life opposite?

Bingo is an classic game generally played by the "blue haired" generation. However the game lately had undergone a recent resurgence in appeal with younger men and women opting to hit the bingo parlours in place of the discos on a Friday night. This is all about to be destroyed with the legislating of the cigarette ban throughout United Kingdom.

Players will no longer be able to smoke while marking off their numbers. From the summer of ‘07 all public locations will no longer be permitted to allow cigarettes in their buildings and this includes Bingo parlours, which are possibly the most common areas where players like to puff on cigarettes.

The outcome of the anti cigarette law can already be seen in Scotland where cigarettes are already barred in the bingo halls. Players have plunged and the business is beyond a doubt fighting for its life. But where have all the players gone? Certainly they have not forgotten this ancient game?

The answer is online. Gamblers realise that they can bet on bingo using their computer while enjoying a drink and smoke and still have a chance at monstrous prizes. This is a recent development and has timed itself just about perfectly with the ban on smoking.

Of course wagering on on the internet is unlikely to replace the social part of heading down to the bingo hall, but for a group of men and women the law has left a number of bingo players with little option.