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A coalition of smokers' rights groups, bar owners and libertarians wants a boycott of donations to the American Cancer Society, American Lung Association and American Heart Association.

The charities' offense? They support public smoking bans. To the coalition, efforts to curb second-hand exposure to a leading cause of disease merit the same punishment as apartheid regimes and segregated bus systems.

The world may not have turned upside down, but the moral justifications for economic boycotts have.