2-Mar-07. Bingos plan butt-law fight. Calgary Sun, 5.

Calgary bingo hall operators are concerned that their businesses will not be viable when a one-year city smoking ban exemption is lifted in 2008. They plan to lobby city aldermen to find a compromise. Dennis Kronberger, general manager of the Bingo Palace, said Edmonton’s smoking ban forced eight of the city’s bingos to fold and he fears the same plight would face Calgary as 70 per cent of bingo clientele smoke.