Tobacco & Hollywood: Headed Toward a Breakup is a statewide Youth Action Project (YAP) designed by Reality Check youth to expose Hollywood's relationship with the tobacco industry and challenge NY teens to stand up and make a change. Through effective youth action, Reality Check will seek to put a damper on Hollywood and the tobacco industry's relationship.

1. Create awareness among teens of how smoking is portrayed in movies.

2. Educate youth on the tobacco industry's involvement with Hollywood.

3. Bring about a change in the way people. especially teens, view smoking in future movies.

4. Pursuade Hollywood to accurately reflect the percentage of smokers in films to mirror the actual percentage of smokers in real life, as well as implore that they realistically portray the health and social effects of smoking in films.