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Much has been written in the press not long ago about the bingo industry being hit because of the smoking ban in England. Things have grown so awful that in Scotland the Bingo industry has requested massive aid to assist in keeping the industry from going bankrupt. However will the internet adaptation of this traditional game present a escape, or will it not compare to its bricks and mortar kin?

Bingo has been an ancient game generally played by the "blue rinse" generation. However the game of late had witnessed a recent resurgence in acceptance with younger men and women opting to visit the bingo halls in place of the bars on a weekend. All this is about to be reversed with the enacting of the smoking ban around UK.

Players will no longer be permitted to smoke while dabbing numbers. Starting in the summer of '07 every public area will no longer be permitted to allow cigarettes in their venues and this includes Bingo halls, one of the most common places where people like to puff on cigarettes.

The outcome of the cigarette ban can already be seen in Scotland where cigarettes are already banned in the bingo parlors. Players have dropped and the industry is literally struggling for its life. But where did all the players go? Certainly they haven't abandoned this ancient game?

The answer is on the net. People are now realizing that they can bet on bingo using their computer at the same time enjoying a drink and fag and in the end, enjoy big cash rewards. This is a recent development and has timed itself almost perfectly with the ban on cigarettes.

Of course gambling on online can never replace the communal aspect of going over to the bingo hall, but for a demographic of men and women the law has left many bingo players with little alternative.