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A lot has been talked in the press just a while ago about the bingo industry struggling as a result of the anti cigarette law in England. Things have grown so poor that in Scotland the Bingo industry has demanded big tax breaks to help keep the industry from going bankrupt. However can the web adaptation of this traditional game provide a reprieve, or will it not compare to its land based opposite?

Bingo has been an age old game normally enjoyed by the "blue haired" generation. For all that the game recently had seen a recent increase in popularity with younger men and women opting to hit the bingo parlours rather than the discos on a Friday night. All this is about to get flipped on its head with the legislating of the anti cigarette law around Britain.

Players will no longer be able to smoke while marking numbers. From the summer of 2007 every public area will no longer be permitted to allow cigarettes in their venues and this includes Bingo parlors, one of the most common places where people like to smoke.

The effects of the smoking ban 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 struggling for its life. But where have the players gone? Of course they have not abandoned this established game?

The answer is online. Gamblers realise that they can participate in bingo using their computer while enjoying a cocktail and cigarette and in the end, enjoy massive cash rewards. This is a recent phenomenon and has happened bordering on perfect with the ban on smoking.

Of course gambling on online is unlikely to replace the social portion of heading over to the bingo hall, but for a group of men and women the rules have left a good many bingo enthusiasts with little option.