In order to facilitate your identification, here are some common cigarette identification methods for your reference:

I. "Hongta Mountain"

According to market spot checks, in recent years, there are many counterfeit Yunyan, especially the famous brand "Hongtashan" cigarettes. The cigarette "Hongtashan" produced by Yuxi Tobacco Factory in Yunnan has four specifications: 84mm and 94mm hard box flip, 84mm and 94mm soft box. Market spot checks found that 84mm soft boxes are the most counterfeit products. The main identification points are as follows:

1. Strip packaging: there are uniformly distributed colored fibers in strip packaging and hard packaging. Both Chinese and English versions of the brand name are printed in red Phnom Penh, and the main pattern of "Hongtashan" is set off by golden peaks and clouds. The Chinese and English versions of "Produced by China Yuxi Cigarette Factory" are marked in black italics. Recently, the product has been pressed out, and there is an anti-counterfeiting logo in the upper left corner. The icon of Hongta Mountain is clearly visible by strong light.

The black bar code number on the bar is as follows:

84mm soft package 10 package (filter cigarette)

690 1028047029

84 mm hard pack 10 strip (hard pack filter-tip cigarettes)

690 1028047063

94mm soft package 10 package (long soft package filter tip cigarette)

690 1028047043

94 mm hard pack 10 strip (long hard pack filter-tip cigarettes)

690 1028047050

"Hongtashan" products are produced by modern assembly lines such as winding, splicing and packaging with international advanced level. The packaging of small strips is regular, the lines are clear, the overall dimensions are fixed, the tolerance is small, the bonding lap is firm, the appearance is smooth and clean, the plastic oil seal is tightly packed, and the gloss is high. The sealing is heated and bonded by machine, which is not easy to open. The drawstring is self-sealing glue, and the shape of drawstring is straight except for the 94mm oral hard box. Other drawstrings (including 84mm hard box, soft box and 94mm soft box) are semi-circular, located on the side of Hongta Mountain with Chinese pinyin, and pulled counterclockwise. There is a 20-mm-wide matte oil tape at all the glue seals of the box, with three glue seals on the side and dotted lines at both ends.

2. Packing: Gravure printing technology is adopted, and the font pattern is clear and complete. The trademark is brightly colored with Hongta Mountain as the background and golden peaks and clouds as the background. The main pattern is printed in big red and gold, and overprinted in gold. The Chinese and English versions of Hongtashan are overprinted in red and gold, and the Chinese and English versions of China Yuxi Cigarette Factory are printed in gold standard font. Recently, the anti-counterfeiting emblem is printed on the upper left corner of the Chinese side of the soft package of the product, which can produce the effect of ultraviolet photochromic. The center of the upper part of the hard bag is printed with anti-counterfeiting marks, and the center of the pattern can produce ultraviolet photochromic effect. The "Phnom Penh" and "golden characters" in the pattern will show golden light under the irradiation of sunlight and light. On one side of the small box package, a black bar code is printed with the following numbers:

84 mm soft package 690 1028048026

84mm hard bag 690 1028048033

94 mm soft package 690 1028048040

94mm hard package 690 1028048057

The main pattern "Hongta Mountain", the golden peak and the edge of the code line all show tiny sawtooth shapes when carefully observed with a magnifying glass. Counterfeit products either have no serrations in the corresponding parts, or the serration spacing is much larger than the real ones.

From the packaging technology point of view, when opening the cigarette label (the small sealing strip on the upper part of each pack of cigarettes, which is called "mouth flower" in some places), you can see two traces of longitudinal thin glue, while the adhesive trace of fake cigarettes after tearing the cigarette label is often one. The order of cigarettes is 7, 6, 7.

The glue seal of genuine soft box packaging is characterized by three-stage glue seam, the upper one is short, the middle one is long, and the next one is long. Fake cigarettes are often a random line.

The adhesive seal of genuine hard box packaging is 8mm wide five-point lattice glue mark, while fake cigarettes are irregular sheets. Before and after the genuine aluminum foil paper and the small box are bonded and sealed, there are five points and six marks, and the fake cigarette is an irregular thin sheet.

There is often a black cursor behind the cigarette label, which is used by the machine to automatically identify and cut off the cigarette label in minutes. Some genuine "Hongtashan" have no cursor after the cigarette label, so this item is only used as a reference standard.

3. Cigarettes: Cigarettes are made of paper rolls made of general anesthesia thread, and the tipping paper with Xue Huadian pattern is printed with clear English letters "YXCF". The factory standard YXCF on the cigarette paper of general anesthesia silk thread has no silk thread on it and the font is broken. All YXCF threads, or fonts, on cigarettes are continuously opened, which are fakes.

4. Cut tobacco: The real "Hongtashan" cut tobacco is slender, uniform, golden or orange in color, shiny, oily and stemless. There is a certain proportion of expanded cut tobacco in cut tobacco, which is elastic when pressed, dry without mildew, and does not turn off when smoking. The color of cut tobacco of fake cigarettes is dark, black or red, and there is no oily feeling and elasticity when pressed, which shows that there is no certain proportion between expanded cut tobacco and cut tobacco.

The identification method of Hongtashan cigarette introduced above is also applicable to Yuxi, Ashima, Shilin, Hongmei and other products produced by Yuxi Cigarette Factory in China. When identifying cigarettes, consumers should make a comprehensive judgment and make a correct judgment according to the strip, box, cigarette, cut tobacco, color, fragrance and taste.