The penalty standards for selling counterfeit cigarettes are as follows:

1. The production and sale of counterfeit and inferior products with a sales amount of less than 50,000 yuan is generally an illegal act and may be punished by the industrial and commercial administration department in accordance with the law. Administrative penalties shall be imposed;

2. When the perpetrator intentionally manufactures and sells counterfeit and inferior products, and the sales amount reaches more than 50,000 yuan as stipulated by law, a crime is constituted and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 2 years or criminal detention, and shall also be sentenced to Or a fine of not less than 50% but not more than twice the amount of sales at a single location.

Because of relevant legal provisions, citizens who sell counterfeit cigarettes without a tobacco monopoly production enterprise license to produce cigarette paper, filter rods, cigarette tows or special tobacco machinery shall be ordered by the tobacco monopoly administrative department Stop production, confiscate illegal gains, impose a fine of not less than 1 time but not more than 2 times the value of the illegally produced tobacco specialty products, and publicly destroy the illegally produced tobacco specialty products.

Legal basis: Article 33 of the "Tobacco Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China"

Production and sale of cigarettes, cigars, and packaged cut tobacco without registered trademarks If any, the industrial and commercial administration department shall order the company to stop production and sales and impose a fine.

Whoever produces or sells tobacco products that counterfeit other people’s registered trademarks shall be ordered by the industrial and commercial administration department to stop the infringement, compensate the infringer for losses, and may also be fined; if a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law.