Smoking ban good for online bingo?

[Simmo!]

I also don't think that the smoking ban is going to stop bingo players who smoke from going to bingo halls and settle with online bingo. I'm sure they have their reasons why they prefer to play bingo at bingo halls

Definately - the social experience is far better "offline" than on. Although that said, the revenue for bingo halls was heavily supplemented by parons spending time on he gaming machines in the lobbies and the hall between games. This has been hit by people going outside for a smoke instead and in Scotland, following the ban there a while ago, this forced a number of smaller bingo halls to close.

[BingoT]

Slap In The Face’ For UK Bingo
March 18, 2008
Source: IGaming British land bingo operators have little to celebrate following the release of Chancellor Alistair Darling's Budget last week, which maintains a controversial double taxation regime on an industry already suffering under a public smoking ban.


story by I Gaming
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wonder how this is all going to turn out for the bingo halls in the UK?

[BingoT]

Smoking ban continues to hit Rank
By BBC News <-----This is the place where it came from.

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By BBC News