Legal analysis: the legal liability for selling fake cigarettes is determined according to the specific amount. If the perpetrator intentionally manufactures and sells fake and inferior products, and the sales amount is less than 50,000 yuan, it is generally an illegal act to manufacture and sell fake and inferior products, and the administrative department for industry and commerce may give administrative punishment according to law. The Regulations for the Implementation of the Tobacco Monopoly Law stipulates that those who sell illegally produced tobacco monopoly products shall be ordered by the department of tobacco monopoly administration to stop selling, confiscate the illegal income, impose a fine of more than 20% and less than 50% of the total illegal sales, and publicly destroy the illegally sold tobacco monopoly products.

Legal Basis: Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Illegal Production and Sale of Tobacco Monopoly Products Article 1 Whoever produces and sells fake and inferior cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco monopoly products with a sales amount of more than 50,000 yuan shall be convicted and punished for the crime of producing and selling fake and inferior products in accordance with the provisions of Article 140 of the Criminal Law.

Without the permission of the registered trademark owner of tobacco monopoly products such as cigarettes and cigars, if the circumstances are serious, he shall be convicted and punished for the crime of counterfeiting registered trademarks in accordance with the provisions of Article 213 of the Criminal Law.

Whoever knowingly sells cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco monopoly commodities with counterfeit registered trademarks of others, and the sales amount is relatively large, shall be convicted and punished for the crime of selling commodities with counterfeit registered trademarks in accordance with the provisions of Article 214 of the Criminal Law.