First, look at the trademark. All real cigarette packages and packets have the same trademark, with clear patterns and writing. The printing of fake cigarette patterns is rough, the colors are different, the handwriting is unclear, some letters are incomplete, and there are errors and omissions in Chinese pinyin and English. The second is to look at the cigarette box. The small packets of real cigarettes are packed with transparent paper, and the pull cord head is in the shape of a small platform, and the glue is strong and flat. The transparent paper of fake cigarettes is uneven and loose, and the pull tabs are generally flat, and most of them have no tabs. The third is to look at cigarettes. The filter tips of all regular cigarettes are neatly cut with no stubble, the rolled cigarettes are even in thickness, moderately soft and hard, the stamp, machine number, and month are clear, the positions are neat up and down, the surface of the cigarette is clean, and there is no cigarette dust at the rim. The opposite is true for fake cigarettes.

The length of fake cigarettes is often 0.5 to 1 mm shorter than real cigarettes. "A notice board on the side of the display site of genuine and counterfeit cigarettes at the Dalian Tobacco Monopoly Bureau Market Management Center reminds people to pay attention to this intuitive identification method.

"It does not mean that all fake cigarettes are better than real cigarettes. short. "The staff of this center said that this is just one of the intuitive standards for identifying true and false cigarettes.

According to reports, in addition to the different lengths of the "wrap paper" of cigarettes, there are at least one other criterion for identifying true and false cigarettes. Another 4 criteria: The transparent paper of counterfeit cigarette boxes is usually harder and thicker than that of cigarette boxes. If the cigarette box is recycled, there will be a crease on the back of the flap, and there will be adulterated cigarettes or fake cigarettes in the box. Counterfeiters often open the upper cover of the cigarette box from both sides and then load the fake cigarettes. When identifying, they mainly check whether the seals on both sides of the box cover have been opened, and identify whether there are creases on the aluminum foil packaging of real cigarettes. The printing on the aluminum foil paper of the fake cigarettes is blurry, with thick foil dots and obvious network shape. The aluminum foil paper of the adulterated cigarettes has wrinkles and unevenness. The printing of the fake cigarettes is distorted and feels hard. The adulterated cigarettes are usually inserted at the back.

It is understood that the counterfeit cigarettes with repackaged products currently appearing on the Dalian market have four main characteristics, namely, the genuine recycled boxes contain fake cigarettes; the recycled genuine boxes contain lower-grade genuine cigarettes. Or put real cigarettes in fake cigarette boxes and sell them at a slightly lower price than real cigarettes; put fake cigarettes in real cigarette boxes and sell them as real cigarettes; adulterated cigarettes usually use real cigarette boxes with several fake cigarettes inserted into them. /p>

In order to effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers and effectively crack down on the criminal activities of manufacturing and selling counterfeit cigarettes, several methods for identifying the authenticity of cigarettes are introduced for the reference of consumers.

1. , Apply sensory method to identify genuine and fake cigarettes

Master the technology of comprehensive analysis and judgment based on five aspects of inspection: packs, packets, cigarettes, shredded tobacco, and smoking taste.

1. .Due to the transformation of equipment, some manufacturers have made the packaging process characteristics of cigarettes inconsistent with the conventional situation. For example, the Chinese small box thread puller produced by Shanghai Cigarette Factory Foke Machine is semi-circular; the GDX-2 packaging machine adopts the above method. Open the lid; the GDX-I small box cigarette labels are glued and sealed in a dot shape, and the SASIB improved carton has a side-opening lid with three-point glue. The small box cigarette labels are glued and sealed in a one-to-one shape, and the cigarette labels have cut corners but are There are multiple angles, etc.

2. For some small-scale cigarette manufacturers, there may be cases where small (hard) boxes are packaged manually, such as the hard boxes of Nanning Cigarette Factory in Guangxi. .

2. Distinguish true and false cigarettes from cut tobacco

Real and fake cigarettes can be distinguished from the tobacco cut manufacturing process and formula structure. The main indicators are:

Harmony: The aroma is harmonious and consistent, and the characteristics of one of the monomers cannot be felt, such as the aroma of flavoring, additives and leaf aroma; external aroma. The external aroma of cigarettes is slightly more prominent and does not cover the inherent aroma of the cigarette.

Off-flavor: does not have the essential smell of cigarettes, such as grassy smell, burnt smell, earthy smell, etc. Pine resin gas, pollen gas, local miscellaneous gas and choking smell, etc.

Irritation: Slight or obvious discomfort caused by smoke, such as the nose, mouth, and throat. Stimulation, etc.

Aftertaste: The taste sensation left behind after the smoke enters the mouth and nasal cavity and is exhaled.

Tobacco quality: a. Color: The cut tobacco of mid-to-high-end cigarettes is golden or orange in color, with good gloss and oiliness; b. The tobacco content is low, the tobacco content is small, the cut tobacco structure is compact, and the cutting width and length are suitable; c. Whether it is blended with expanded cut tobacco, expanded stems or tobacco flakes (tobacco flakes are generally used in mid- to low-end cigarettes).

Generally counterfeit tobacco: a. The shredded tobacco has poor luster and oiliness, and high tobacco content and stem content; b. The cut tobacco has been dyed and the edges and corners of the cut tobacco turn red; c. Cigarette scraps or unprocessed low-quality tobacco.

3. Distinguish genuine and fake cigarettes from the seals and cigarette labels

Seals: There should be 2 parallel glue marks on the back of the seal of soft box cigarettes, and one of them contains 10 packs. The seals of cigarettes are basically even and aligned; the fake cigarettes are sealed by hand, and the back of the seal is irregularly adhered, and sometimes the entire seal is stuck.

Cigarette labels: The identification method is the same as that of the carton. According to the printing characteristics of each brand trademark, the identification is mainly based on the pattern hot stamping, gloss and color of the small box and the paper texture of the carton.

The trademarks of Shanghai Cigarette Factory and Yuxi Cigarette Factory are printed using imported gravure printing machines. Therefore, the trademarks have bright gloss and clear layers. When observed with a magnifying glass (or carefully observed with the naked eye), the edges of the lines show tiny zigzag shapes (external smoke). This is true for "Three Five", "Jian Pai" and "Marlboro").

The Nanjing Cigarette Factory's "Boutique Nanjing" and "Jiapin Nanjing" small box films use the latest technology "dragon" pattern colored film to enhance the anti-counterfeiting function of the product.

Simple identification method:

①Look at the packaging: the packaging of counterfeit cigarettes is dirty, loose, and the transparent paper is twisted and wrinkled. The trademark pattern and words are dark and light.

②Look at the transparent paper gold cable: the fake cigarette gold cable has no cable head, a flat head and a narrow head.

③Look at the cigarette: The surface of the fake cigarette is not clean, the color is light, the mouth is crooked, the cut is hairy, and the stamp is incomplete.

④Look at the filter tip: The joints of fake cigarettes are uneven and soft, and the cigarette and the filter tip can easily become disconnected.

⑤Look at the color: the cut tobacco of counterfeit cigarettes is brown-black or green-brown, with dull luster, and some have added pigments.

⑥Look at the soot: The soot of fake cigarettes turns black and explodes outward, taking the shape of a spiky ball.

A simple identification method if you buy a whole carton of cigarettes: If you buy a pack of cigarettes, shake the whole pack of cigarettes directly. If you don’t hear any noise inside the cigarette pack, it’s a real cigarette. If you hear any noise inside the pack, it’s a real cigarette. If the cigarettes make the sound of colliding with each other, they are fake cigarettes. Because the real cigarettes are installed by machines, the installed cigarettes are very close to each other, so the cigarettes in the cigarette box will not collide with each other. The fake cigarettes are installed manually, so There is a certain gap between the smoke and the sound of collision between the smoke can be heard when shaking