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CONTACT:
Bill Williams
smokinglobby.com
smokinglobby@yahoo.com
http://www.smokinglobby.com/

SMOKINGLOBBY.COM UPGRADES TO WEB PORTAL

New York, NY Jun 6 2003 - Smokinglobby.com unveiled their new website today, changing from an online community to a web portal. After 3 successful years in operation as an online community, Smokinglobby.com decided to begin offering site visitors more content as well as community-building options.

"We felt it was about time to provide more information to our users, " says Bill Williams, smokinglobby.com founder, "so we decided to switch to a portal format. Now we can offer not only more content in the form of published articles, but stronger community-building areas such as a multi-threaded forum, user polls, and user-submitted comments, ratings, articles and links."

The new web portal is powered by the Open Source software PHP-Nuke (http://www.phpnuke.org/). "Smokinglobby has always used open source solutions - we support personal freedom and liberty in smoking, so it's only natural we should support licensing freedom in our software," said Williams.

Advocating the rights of cigarette smokers, smokinglobby.com offers a central online source of information to discuss the controversy surrounding smoking in America today. Visitors are provided with a realtime chat room as well as a discussion forum to talk about smoking and smokers' rights.

For additional information or a sample copy, contact:
Bill Williams
smokinglobby.com
smokinglobby@yahoo.com
http://www.smokinglobby.com/

Smokinglobby.com is an online portal advocating the rights of cigarette smokers.

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