Tobacco advertisements will return to newspapers and broadcast television on Sunday in the form of court-ordered “corrective” statements warning of the dangers of smoking, the Baltimore Sun, one of the newspapers which will feature the statements, reported.

Beginning Sunday and running for a year, the ads are a 2006 court-ordered response to a lawsuit against tobacco companies brought by the U.S. Justice Department dating back to 1999. Tobacco companies were found to have violated civil racketeering laws by concealing negative health effects of smoking from consumers. Tobacco companies were ordered to take “corrective” steps, including adding strict health warnings to packs and making the corrective statements in news media, the newspaper said.
The ads are scheduled to run in at least 45 US newspapers and major broadcast networks, the newspaper said.