Thing is, do they actually pay to play the game, or do they just play the free demo version? Are they customers, or are they the same sort of people from a few decades ago who talked like "Oh, I'd so go to Bingo more if the halls weren't so full of cigarette smoke" who then never showed up for Bingo once the smoking laws hit (and in fact, the halls emptied and many shut down in my hometown, where it was all the rage, and supported by American gamblers looking for bigger pots than what Michigan allowed.)
None of the people who bitched about smoke-filled bingo halls actually played bingo. Or at least, weren't the fans of it who went every week. THOSE people smoked heavily ...
I worked in bingo halls for three years, volunteer, twice a week in the early 80s. Watched as by the end of the 80s, the only place for teenagers to go, a roller rink, was turned into a bingo hall because of the bingo craze - which died the instant the tobacco laws came in. Windsor, Ontario (aka Canada's Armpit.)
Thing is, do they actually pay to play the game, or do they just play the free demo version? Are they customers, or are they the same sort of people from a few decades ago who talked like "Oh, I'd so go to Bingo more if the halls weren't so full of cigarette smoke" who then never showed up for Bingo once the smoking laws hit (and in fact, the halls emptied and many shut down in my hometown, where it was all the rage, and supported by American gamblers looking for bigger pots than what Michigan allowed.)
None of the people who bitched about smoke-filled bingo halls actually played bingo. Or at least, weren't the fans of it who went every week. THOSE people smoked heavily ...
I worked in bingo halls for three years, volunteer, twice a week in the early 80s. Watched as by the end of the 80s, the only place for teenagers to go, a roller rink, was turned into a bingo hall because of the bingo craze - which died the instant the tobacco laws came in. Windsor, Ontario (aka Canada's Armpit.)