There are several organizations that are dedicated to the issue of youth smoking  and the depiction of smoking in film and television projects.

• Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME): Free of corporate media funding, ACME is a strategic network linking media educators, health advocates, media reformers, independent media makers, community organizers and others.

• American Legacy Foundation: This national organization is dedicated to building a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. Work to reduce tobacco use among young people includes a major national tobacco youth prevention and education effort known as the Truth® campaign.

• AMA Alliance: Dedicated to promoting and supporting the medical community in which we live and offers invaluable grassroots program opportunities for states, counties, leaders and members. Their Screen Out campaign, launched in October 2006, is a nationwide effort to take smoking out of youth-rated movies.

• Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights: The leading national lobbying organization dedicated to nonsmokers' rights, taking on the tobacco industry at all levels of government, protecting nonsmokers from exposure to secondhand smoke, and preventing tobacco addiction among youth.

• Anti-Smoking Ads.org: Presents the extensive smoking-related research of Dr. Connie Pechmann, currently a Professor of Marketing at UC Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business.

• As You Sow: Launched the Corporate Social Responsibility Program (CSRP) in 1997 to use shareholder advocacy and the financial markets to catalyze positive change within public held companies.

• Burning Brain Society (India):  Conducted a major study of smoking in the movies in India, that showed that brand identification nearly tripled after India ended legal tobacco advertising.

• California Youth Advocacy Network (CYAN): Dedicated to supporting youth and young adults by advocating for a tobacco-free California.  Provides tobacco control professionals and young people with the tangible tools for action to mobilize a powerful statewide movement.

• Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids:  Updates on national, state and global anti-tobacco initiatives, more. Read why they support and R-rating for smoking movies.

• Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education: The work of the Center is designed to inform and improve the effectiveness of public health interventions to reduce tobacco use, spanning policy and historical research, economics, and science.

• Essential Action:  Founded in 1982 by Ralph Nader, Essential Information is involved in a variety of projects to encourage citizens to become active and engaged in their communities by providing provocative information to the public on important topics neglected by the mass media and policy makers. Read how they exposed British American Tobacco's use of Warner Brothers movies to promote tobacco in Nigeria.

• Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility:  A coalition of 275 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish institutional investors with more than $100 billion in equities held by pension, endowment or charitable foundation funds that presses corporations to act responsibly. ICCR is leading an effort to use shareholder resolutions to press the media giants that own Hollywood to get smoking out of youth-rated films.

• Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group:  Research and action on smoking in movies and tobacco control.

• Media Wise: The Institute is the country’s leading source for research about the impact of media on bullying, youth violence, school performance, obesity and other child health and development issues.

• Movies With No Smoking:  Lists movies that contain no scenes of smoking.

• New Mexico Media Literacy Project:  Mission is to cultivate critical thinking and activism in our media culture to build healthy and just communities. Empowers children, youth and adults to become more critical consumers of media messages.

• Our Voices Exposed (OVX) Media Literacy:  Vermont teens fighting back against Big Tobacco and Hollywood by exposing product placement.

• Quit Doc Research and Education Foundation: SmokeScreeners was created by this non-profit organization, which was formed to promote tobacco awareness and prevention programs in the state of Florida.

• Reality Check:  New York teens tell Hollywood to stop doing Big Tobacco's duty work. Check out their step-by-step guide to help teens let Hollywood know what they think. (Click here for last year's guidebook.)

• Scene Smoking:  Reviews of smoking in current movies along with ideas for activism.

• Smoke Free Movies:  Smoke Free Movies is a project of Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Professor Glantz is co-author of The Cigarette Papers and Tobacco War and director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.

• Stanford University Department of Pediatrics Advocacy Program:  Created to raise awareness of danger of smoking depicted in movies, causing youth to start smoking, and to pressure the movie industry to eliminate smoking from movies.

• Students Working Against Tobacco (SWAT): This Florida organization promotes tobacco awareness and prevention through youth advocacy.

• TheTruth.com:  National Truth Campaign designed to tell the truth about the tobacco industry.

• Thumbs Up! Thumbs Down!:  Analysis of smoking in the movies done by high school students with Breathe California of Sacramento-Emigrant Trails.

• TOBACCOpedia:  Online reference sponsored by the International Tobacco Control Network.

• Tobacco.org:  Free resource center focusing on tobacco and smoking issues. It features tobacco news, information, assistance for smokers trying to quit, alerts on tobacco control issues, and open consideration of all aspects of the spectrum of issues concerning tobacco, nicotine, cigarettes and cigars