Smoking ban will drive bingo players online

The UK’s bingo players are up in arms over the imminent smoking ban, and the smoker amongst them have said they will visit bingo clubs less often, and spend more time online. St Minver, which operates the world’s largest bingo network, has carried out a survey of 3,000 UK bingo players to find out their attitudes towards the ban, which comes into effect from 1st July.

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Thu, May 17th, 2007

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