After being banned from the airwaves for decades, tobacco companies will again be sponsoring ads on prime time.

A judge ordered them to sponsor the ads to show the dangers of smoking in response to commercials that ran for years.

"More people die every year from smoking than from murder, aids, suicide, car crashes and alcohol combined," one ad states.

The smokers we talked to in downtown Winston-Salem think the ads will be effective.

They'll run for a year.

Reynolds American Tobacco issued a statement saying "the industry is working with FDA to create a regulated marketplace that encourages innovation while reducing the harm from smoking."