1. Touch the outer packaging

(1) All cigarettes are wrapped in a plastic cover. The plastic cover of real cigarettes looks very smooth and hard. The packaging is tightly sealed and will not wrinkle when touched hard. For hard-packed cigarettes.

(2) For soft-packed cigarettes, since the soft pack is soft overall, the packaging cannot be tightly sealed, but we can observe the plastic cover again. If the cover is too soft and can be touched with force, If the wrinkles are serious, it may be a fake cigarette

2. Look at the outer packaging

(1) The printing on the outer packaging of real cigarettes looks neat and full in color to the naked eye. The steel seal on the box is deep and natural, while fake cigarettes generally have lighter fonts and lighter steel seals.

(2) Taking the Yellow Crane Tower as an example, the Chinese fonts on fake cigarettes are slightly thinner than real cigarettes by a few tenths of a millimeter. There is no steel seal at all, and there is no obvious trace of watermark on the anti-counterfeiting sticker at the bottom of the cigarette box. Even if you look carefully under the sun, you cannot see the anti-counterfeiting marks with Chinese patterns.

3. Smell the smoke

(1) Open the package, take out a cigarette, put it in front of your nose and smell it, because tobacco is usually fried first, and then smoked every time. Every cigarette will have tobacco aroma, but fake cigarettes are shoddily made and many steps are omitted, so the cigarette itself will not have tobacco aroma.

(2) For example, if you buy cigarettes worth more than 20 yuan, the cigarette smoke will be stronger. If you find that the cigarette has no smoke fragrance, there are two situations. One is old cigarettes. If left for too long, the aroma will evaporate, and the other cigarette will be fake.

Extended information

Development

1. The original formula of "Zhonghua Brand" cigarettes uses a large proportion of American tobacco leaves, which are old cigarettes imported from the past. , the situation at that time (the founding of New China) made it impossible to continue importing American tobacco leaves, so the inventory was dwindling, and how to continue production became the most important and urgent issue. Obviously, replacing imported tobacco leaves with domestically produced tobacco leaves is the only way out.

2. To this end, we further studied the aroma characteristics of various imported tobacco leaves and compared them with the aroma quality of domestic tobacco leaves of various local grades. Research shows that some of the flavors in imported tobacco leaves are of the strong-flavor type. This kind of tobacco leaves can basically be replaced by the high-quality Xuchang aged tobacco leaves at that time. The supply is sufficient and there is no big problem. The other type of flavor is of the light-flavor type, and some Yunnan tobacco leaves It is relatively similar and can be partially replaced.

3. In addition, the newly developed flue-cured tobacco in Yongding, Fujian has another characteristic fragrance. The flue-cured tobacco in Deng County, Henan (called Deng Kang at the time) also has a unique fragrance. The problem is that the quantity is limited and can only be produced in small quantities. use. Although some of the flue-cured tobacco produced in Shandong and Guizhou, which were relatively abundant at that time, did not have a prominent smoke flavor, it could play a role in harmonizing the aroma of tobacco.

4. Using the appropriate blending of these tobacco leaves, combined with technical measures such as leaf selection, stem removal, and artificial fermentation, the amount of American tobacco leaves was gradually reduced, and for a time, the "Zhonghua Brand" was produced entirely with domestic tobacco leaves. "Cigarettes solve the problem of raw material supply.

5. It should be noted that the production of "Zhonghua Brand" cigarettes was a political task at that time, and the company leaders attached great importance to it. In 1954, the Ministry of Food Industry sent a working group to Shanghai to inspect the quality of "Zhonghua Brand" cigarettes. It stipulated that any major changes in the formula of "Zhonghua Brand" cigarettes must be approved by the ministry, and policies were given in terms of raw material supply and other aspects. strong support.

6. Although the output of "Zhonghua Brand" cigarettes is not large, Shanghai Tobacco Company and the manufacturing plants have been constantly working hard to improve the quality and regard it as a political task. Its political significance cannot be underestimated. .

Raw materials

1. The proportion of Chinese raw materials selected from high-quality tobacco leaves is not large. At that time, it was usually only about 10, and the quantity required was very large. I remember that in 1980, tobacco leaf production was reduced and high-quality cigarettes were in short supply. Seven packs of high-quality cigarettes from Linyi, Shandong were transferred to Kaifeng Tobacco Factory. When the provincial company found out, they ordered them to recover them and transfer them to Shanghai, otherwise they would stop all transportation to Kaifeng and Kaifeng Tobacco Factory They had no choice but to transport 7 packs of tobacco leaves to Shanghai by LTL, which illustrates the seriousness of Shanghai's allocation of high-quality cigarettes to ensure the production of Zhonghua Tobacco.

2. The biggest problem in producing "Zhonghua" cigarettes is the raw materials. At the beginning of production, the raw materials used were all imported tobacco leaves, which were later replaced with domestic tobacco leaves, and the quality was not high enough. In 1954, the Food Industry Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Light Industry sent a working group to the cigarette factory to conduct research on the quality issues of "Zhonghua" cigarettes. In the research and trial production of domestic tobacco leaf substitution, tobacco leaves from Xuchang, Shandong, Fujian, Guizhou and other places were used (selected from first- and second-grade tobacco leaves).

3. In the era of planned economy, the central government stipulated that all first- and second-grade tobacco leaves in the above-mentioned areas should be transferred to Shanghai to ensure the production volume of "Chinese" tobacco. At the same time, it is stipulated that the formula of "Zhonghua" cigarettes is managed by the Food Industry Administration, and adjustments to the formula structure must be approved.

4. Due to the small quantity of raw materials for "Chinese" cigarettes, the annual output in the 1980s was generally a few thousand boxes and no more than 10,000 boxes (depending on the quantity of raw materials). During the Great Leap Forward era, raw materials were even scarcer, and domestic aged tobacco leaves were in short supply. Therefore, artificial fermentation tobacco leaf technology was adopted, and at the same time, manual leaf picking (leaf picking by hand) began.

5. Before the "Cultural Revolution", tobacco leaves were uniformly allocated by the central government. During the "Cultural Revolution", there were difficulties in the supply of raw materials. "Zhonghua" tobacco was produced every year, but the quantity was very small. After the "Cultural Revolution", some imported tobacco leaves (from the United States, Thailand, Zimbabwe, etc.) began to be used in small quantities, but they had to apply for foreign exchange quotas from the central government every year.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhonghua Cigarettes