A lot has been reported in the press just a while ago concerning the bingo industry struggling because of the anti smoking law in Britain. Conditions have grown so poor that in Scotland the Bingo industry has requested big aid to help keep the businesses alive. However will the web adaptation of this classic game offer a escape, or will it in no way compare to its land based equivalent?

Bingo has been an familiar game usually played by the "blue haired" generation. Although the game recently had undergone a recent comeback in popularity with younger people opting to go to the bingo parlors in place of the discos on a Saturday night. All this is about to be reversed with the enforcement of the anti smoking law across United Kingdom.

Players will no longer be permitted to smoke whilst marking numbers. Beginning in the summer of ‘07 every public place will not be permitted to allow cigarettes in their buildings and this includes Bingo parlours, which are possibly the most common places where people enjoy smoking.

The outcome of the anti smoking law can already be felt in Scotland where cigarettes are already not allowed in the bingo parlours. Players have plunged and the industry is literally fighting for its life. But where have the players gone? Of course they have not abandoned this ancient game?

The answer is on the net. Players realise that they can bet on bingo from their computer at the same time enjoying a drink and fag and in the end, enjoy huge prizes. This is a recent anomaly and has timed itself just about perfectly with the anti smoking law.

Of course wagering on online can never replace the communal portion of heading over to the bingo parlour, but for a demographic of players the governing edicts have left a lot of bingo enthusiasts with no choice.