The U.S. motion picture industry produces much of the world’s feature films and is dominated by several large studios, based mostly in Hollywood, California.

Syriana by Stephen Gaghan
Based on the book entitled " See No Evil" by Robert Baer

Although the state settlement agreements with the cigarette companies prohibits any payments by the cigarette companies to place their products in movies or television programs, the amount of smoking in U.S. films has increases significantly since the settlement agreements were signed in 1998.* Why this increase has occurred is not clear. But it is perfectly clear from numerous research studies that smoking in movies and related product placements work to increase smoking levels among kids.

This is the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest Movies, selected by AFI's blue-ribbon panel of more than 1,500 leaders of the American movie community.