If Dr. Richard Daines has his way, Empire State youth will never know how cool smoking looks on the silver screen. The New York state health commissioner launched a campaign this week urging major film studio CEOs to protect children under 17 from seeing movies with smoking scenes.

In full-page advertisements that ran in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Tuesday, Daines said that films showing tobacco use should be rated "R" unless they show the dangers of tobacco use or depict the smoking habit of a historical figure. According to the commish, "Exposure to smoking in movies is the single most powerful pro-tobacco influence on children today, accounting for the recruitment of half of all new adolescent smokers." The good doctor wants anti-smoking ads to run before every film that shows tobacco use and called for studios to state in the closing credits that any people shown smoking in a film weren't paid to promote tobacco products.

The health department reportedly shelled out $800,000 for the ads, which would buy a lot of smokes, even in Manhattan. But what is celluloid New York without cigarettes? As a public service, Radar proudly presents the Top 10 Smoking in New York Movies you might have missed had the movie gestapo jumped into the fray sooner.

1. Breakfast at Tiffany's
Go ahead. Try to picture Holly Golightly without her iconic cigarette holder. Audrey Hepburn's madcap Manhattan miss wields it like a weapon in this iconic film, at one point even setting a fellow party-goer's hat on fire.

2. Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and Goodfellas
So much for the Scorsese oeuvre. The tough guys in these three films all hang around smoky neighborhood bars. Even in After Hours, pretty much the only thing that goes right for Griffin Dunne's yuppie is that he never runs out of smokes.

3. Manhattan and Annie Hall
Woody Allen films are out, too. The Woodster is a traditionalist when it comes to cigarettes, and his neurotic city-dwellers smoke in most of his movies. Diane Keaton's Mary drags all the way through Manhattan, and in Annie Hall, both Keaton and Shelley Duvall's character smoke after sex with Alvy Singer.

4. All About Eve
Margo Channing would be defanged without a cigarette in her hand. In the back-stabbing backstage classic, Bette Davis' diva actress, a master of the French inhale, even smokes lying in bed.

5. The French Connection
Recently deceased Roy Scheider seemed to smoke through most of his movies, but there's something especially artful about the way the cigarette clings to his lower lip as he helps partner Gene Hackman bust a drug-smuggling ring in this '70s classic.

6. The Last Seduction
Wendy Kroy will kill you long before cigarettes will. In The Last Seduction Linda Fiorentino's iconic bitch in heels heads upstate and chain smokes her way through one double-cross after another.

7. Midnight Cowboy
Hey, I'm smoking here! Joe Buck and Ratso Rizzo meet cute over cigarettes, then Rizzo spends the rest of this film puffing away and growing increasingly tubercular.

8. The Royal Tenenbaums
In The Royal Tenenbaums, Gwyneth Paltrow's Margo never looks more glamorous than when she's locked in the bathroom of her mythical Upper West Side digs sneaking smokes.

9. Smoke
Auggie's Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of the neighborhood in this Paul Auster-penned film. The flick's improv follow-up, Blue in the Face, includes comedy gold like Jim Jarmusch's "last cigarette" riff, where he calls coffee and cigarettes "the breakfast of champions."

10. The Sweet Smell of Success
In this classic New York noir, Burt Lancaster's venomous gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker spends his time smoking in nightclubs and commanding Tony Curtis's PR wannabe to "Match me, Sidney."