Evangelos Papastratos ( el, Ευάγγελος Παπαστράτος, 1910 – 1998) was a

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man born in the city of

Agrinio Agrinio (Greek: Αγρίνιο, , Latin: ''Agrinium'') is the largest city of the Aetolia-Acarnania regional unit of Greece and its largest municipality, with 106,053 inhabitants. It is the economical center of Aetolia-Acarnania, although its capi ...

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. Although the youngest of his brothers, he was the first in his family to become involved with the

tobacco Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus '' Nicotiana'' of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the ...

trade. Along with his brother Sotirios he founded the Papastratiou Brothers firm, one of the biggest tobacco companies in

until the rise in foreign cigarette imports in the 1970s and the 1980s. Papastratos also wrote a book called ''I douleia kai o kopos tis'' (''Η δουλειά και ο κόπος της'').

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Evangelos Papastratos on ''Nea Epohi''
1910 births 1973 deaths 20th-century Greek businesspeople Greek philanthropists People from Agrinio 20th-century philanthropists {{Greece-business-bio-stub