Each year in the United States, more people die from smoking than from murder, AIDS, suicide, drugs, car crashes, and alcohol—combined.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says those graphic anti-smoking ads that feature real smokers appear to be working. The TIPS campaign has been underway since 2012.

Brian King, in the CDC's office on Smoking and Health says, "we know that these hard-hitting messages that really speak to the known risks caused by smoking are particularly effective in helping smokers quit."

He says the campaign has helped over a half a million people quit smoking for good between 2011 and 2015.

Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.

Kings says, " for every $2000 we spend on a campaign such as this we save one life.”