Cook County, Illinois has mandated that e-cigarettes be behind the counter and not sold to minors. Chicago has banned e-cig “vaping” wherever cigarette smoking is forbidden, with other cities and counties also considering similar moves. Nek-nominate, which has been popular in UK and Australia, is now appearing here. It involves drinking large amounts of alcohol often mixed with other bizarre things, then nominating one or two friends to follow suit, or do even more. Of course its recorded and shared on YouTube. News of new performance-enhancing drugs coming out of Sochi. Of course it doesn’t show up in drug testing. Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank advocating for legalizing drugs, and some success with smoking cessation among those with mental illness using the stop-smoking drug varenicline (Chantax.)