By BRYAN ROURKE, The Providence Journal

The last time Frank Meglio smoked a cigarette he had to plug it in and charge it. Then the 38-year-old Providence man inhaled through the white plastic cigarette-like tube, which activated a little lithium battery inside that produced a flame-like light, a smoke-like vapor and a nicotine hit.
Smoking's gone high-tech.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An old debate is dusted off: Where is America's birth certificate?It's in Washington, according to the Library of Congress. It's in Providence, according to the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.