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Obituary: John D. Loudermilk / Nashville songwriter of ‘Tobacco Road’

Edit Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 24 Sep 2016
John D. Loudermilk, a prolific Nashville songwriter whose best-known songs, “Tobacco Road” and “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye,” were covered hundreds of times, evoking  a gritty side of the South, died Wednesday at his home in Christiana, Tenn. He was 82 ... ....

'Tobacco Road' songwriter John D. Loudermilk dies

Edit Arizona Daily Star 24 Sep 2016
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — John D. Loudermilk, a singer and songwriter who wrote pop and country songs such as "Tobacco Road" and "Indian Reservation," has died. He was 82 ... ....

Civic body to ban sale of tobacco and pan masala products nearby school hostels

Edit The Times of India 24 Sep 2016
City Corporation has decided to extend the ban on sale of tobacco and pan masala products in the surrounding areas of school hostels in its limit ... the sale of tobacco and pan masala products. The move aims at curbing the students from getting addictions to tobacco and pan masala products....

Track of the Day: ‘Tobacco Road’ by John D. Loudermilk

Edit The Atlantic 24 Sep 2016
In particular, that means “Tobacco Road,” a song he wrote in 1960 but that hit the charts in 1964 when the Nashville Teens recorded it. It was a semi-autobiographical song—Loudermilk was born in 1934 in Durham, North Carolina, an industrial town full of millhouses built to handle the influx of people from the country who came to work in the city’s textile mills and tobacco factories ... Tobacco Road ... Tobacco Road ... Tobacco Road ... Tobacco Road....

John D. Loudermilk, Nashville songwriter of ‘Tobacco Road,’ dies at 82

Edit The Washington Post 23 Sep 2016
Among dozens of songs, Mr. Loudermilk wrote the hits “Indian Reservation,” “Abilene” and “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye.” ... ....

Police investigate Dyer tobacco store robbery

Edit The Indiana Times 23 Sep 2016
DYER — Three passing trains hampered the search for a robbery suspect Thursday morning, but police say they are now working several leads after it appears some of the man’s escape route could have been captured on video surveillance ... ....

John D. Loudermilk, Who Wrote ‘Tobacco Road’ and ‘Indian Reservation,’ Dies at 82

Edit New York Times 23 Sep 2016
The country singer and songwriter wrote dozens of hits in the 1960s and ’70s, performed by artists including Eddie Cochran and Paul Revere and the Raiders ... ....

Japan Tobacco to roll out e-cigarette next year

Edit Reuters 23 Sep 2016
LONDON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Japan Tobacco is aiming to start rolling out its Ploom Tech tobacco-based e-cigarette in cities across Japan next year, a senior executive said on Friday, as it fights to... ....

Zimbabwe: A Female Tobacco Farmer's Story

Edit All Africa 23 Sep 2016
[The Herald] Buhle Nkomo Grace Gohori (41), a tobacco farmer at Alsace Farm in Beatrice started farming tobacco in 2007 and is one of the over 8 000 women farming tobacco in Zimbabwe. "My yield averaged 3 500 kilogrammes per hectare on my three hectare plot although the season was characterised by long dry spells, and this is up from about a 1 000 kilograms when I did not have the drip facility," said Gohori ... ....

UPDATE 1-Japan Tobacco to roll out e-cigarette next year

Edit Reuters 23 Sep 2016
* Company affirms 2016 forecast (Adds comments from analyst, shareholder, executive) ....

REFILE-UPDATE 1-Japan Tobacco to roll out e-cigarette next year

Edit Reuters 23 Sep 2016
LONDON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Japan Tobacco aims to start selling its Ploom Tech tobacco-based electronic cigarette in cities across Japan next year, it said on Friday, as it fights to catch up with bigger rival Philip Morris in meeting the growing demand for "vaping" products. ....

‘Tobacco Road’ songwriter John D. Loudermilk dies

Edit The Washington Post 23 Sep 2016
John D. Loudermilk, a singer and songwriter who wrote pop and country songs such as “Tobacco Road” and “Indian Reservation,” has died. He was 82 ... ....

The Rise Of Illicit Tobacco

Edit Forbes 23 Sep 2016
The World Health Organization meets next week in Washington DC and will discuss the rise of illicit cigarettes, which are increasingly caused by WHO efforts against smoking. Smoking cigarettes kills millions every year and the WHO established the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in 2005 to lower the death [...] ... ....
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