1. Tobacco authenticity query system

Cigarette barcodes can be entered into the China Product Information Verification Center for query.

The barcode of real cigarettes is clear and complete. If you observe it with a magnifying glass, you will find that the shape of the barcode is irregular teeth. Many of the barcodes on fake cigarettes are black straight lines, and some barcodes have broken lines.

Many mid- to high-end cigarettes have some subtle anti-counterfeiting marks on the outer packaging of each genuine product, which can be clearly distinguished if you look closely. When smokers buy cigarettes, they must go to a store with a tobacco retail license. Tobacco companies implement a "one household, one code" cigarette supply system, and each store has its own cigarette code.

The entire package of real cigarettes will have the laser-printed code (two rows) when it is shipped out of the warehouse. The first 4 digits of the second row (16 digits) of the code are the same as the store's tobacco retail license. The last 4 digits of the number are consistent, and the code has a three-dimensional feel that can be felt by touching it.

Extended information: Key factors for identifying tobacco: 1. Look at the package.

The transparent paper of the authentic famous cigarette stick package is flat, and the seam is hot-sealed with a soldering iron, making it smooth and smooth; the sealing edge of the cigarette stick is mechanically glued. Fake strip bags are often packaged with defective old crystals, which are uneven and smooth; the overlaps and seals are often bonded with glue; the strip bags are loosely packed and have uneven softness and hardness.

2. Look at the cigarette box. Small packets of famous cigarettes are packaged in transparent paper. The pull cords are in the shape of a small platform and are firmly and flatly bonded.

The transparent paper of fake cigarettes is uneven and loose, and the pull-tape head is generally flat, and most of them have no head; the pull-tape and the transparent paper are not bonded; the transparent paper of the cigarette box is uneven after being pulled apart. 3. Look at the trademark.

The famous cigarette stick packs and small packs have the same trademark, with clear patterns and writing; the fake cigarettes have rough printing patterns, different colors, unclear handwriting, incomplete letters, and errors and omissions in Chinese pinyin and English. 4. Look at the mouth flowers.

Famous cigarette mouthpieces are generally printed with the same manufacturer name as the bars and boxes, with the same width and width. The joint is a combination of two thin strips, which is easy to open without breaking. The fake cigarette's mouth decoration is inconsistent with the manufacturer's name on the strip and box, and the width is different. The mouth decoration is sealed with glue or paste and is difficult to open.

5. Look at the eye of the needle. Needle holes are left by the mechanical packaging of cigarettes. The two scratches at the corners on both sides of the bottom of the horizontal packaging box, and the scratches on one side of the vertical package after the seal is opened are needle holes.

However, the fakes are hand-packaged without needle holes and have obvious scissor marks.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Tobacco.

2. How to check the authenticity of cigarettes

There are three ways to distinguish whether a cigarette is a real cigarette or a fake cigarette. The following are the specific instructions of those three methods.

First: First of all, when we get the cigarette, we have to look at the plastic packaging of the casing. Then press the middle section of the plastic package with your fingers. If the box can be pressed in and the plastic paper can rebound quickly without any obvious plastic paper sound, it proves that it is real cigarettes.

Because the plastic sealing machines in cigarette factories are expensive, if there is no problem with the plastic packaging, then the cigarette factory does not need to spend such a high cost to manufacture fake cigarettes. Second: Shake the cigarette.

If you feel like there is smoke shaking inside and it is not very tight, then it is real smoke. When the fake cigarette is shaken, the smoke inside will feel very tight and will not move.

Third: If we have already purchased cigarettes, we might as well take out the cigarettes inside and pinch the filter tip of the cigarette. If the filter feels hard and cannot be pinched, it proves that the production cost of this cigarette is relatively low, and it is probably a fake cigarette.

The cigarette holder of a real cigarette will feel softer when pinched, and the cost will be relatively high. We can also pinch the "cigarette body". The real cigarette will feel soft when pinched, while the fake cigarette will also have a hard feeling when pinched.

: Cigarette is a type of tobacco product. The production method is to dry the tobacco, cut it into shreds, and then roll it into a cylindrical strip with a length of about 120mm and a diameter of 10mm.

When smoking, light one end and then inhale the smoke produced through your mouth at the other end. Cigars are tobacco rolled into barrel-shaped strips and smoked.

The main difference between cigarettes and cigars is that cigarettes are smaller and the tobacco is refined and chopped. Cigarettes were first popular in Türkiye, where local people liked to roll tobacco into newspapers and smoke it.

During the Crimean War, British soldiers learned how to smoke from the Ottoman Empire soldiers at that time, and then spread it to different places. On June 25, 1843, France began manufacturing the first batch of cigarettes for commercial sale in history.

Later, cigarettes became popular everywhere.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Cigarettes.

3. How to check the authenticity of cigarettes using barcodes

1. The barcoding of fake cigarettes is not completed at one time.

The real cigarette barcode is completed by a one-time instant scan, while the fake cigarette barcode is completed multiple times, and some are even completed word by word. As shown in the fake cigarette in Figure 1.

For this fake cigarette barcode, the digital barcodes on both sides are scanned first, then both ends of the transparent paper are sealed and packaged, and finally the digital barcode in the middle part is scanned in. Since the middle part is not covered by transparent paper, it does not match the barcode. There is a big difference in color and gloss on both sides, and there is an obvious concave and convex feeling to the touch. However, the digital codes on both sides are covered with transparent paper, so there is no such feeling. 2. The asymmetry of counterfeit cigarette barcodes.

Although the real cigarette barcode may have a slight deviation due to speed or temperature during the scanning process, generally speaking, the upper and lower lines of the 32-bit barcode are parallel and symmetrical. And the font is the same. Fake cigarette barcodes are prone to asymmetry, non-parallel, and even different fonts.

As shown in the fake cigarette in Figure 2, the upper and lower correspondences between the first row and the second row are inconsistent, and the numbers in the same row are different in height. As shown in the fake cigarette in Figure 3, the third number 0 from the left in the first row and the sixth number 0 are of different thicknesses.

3. The numbers in the barcode of fake cigarettes are confusingly written. The first five digits in the first row of real cigarettes show the year, month, day and time. The last two digits in the first row are generally between 01-50. The counterfeit cigarette barcode may have omissions here.

As shown in the fake cigarette in Figure 4, the last two digits in the first row are 86, which does not meet the barcode characteristics of real cigarettes. 4. The regional pinyin abbreviation of the counterfeit cigarette barcode sometimes does not match the corresponding region code.

This is also an aspect of counterfeit cigarette barcodes that is easily overlooked. It is very important for inspectors to be familiar with and verify the regional pinyin abbreviations and corresponding region codes on cigarette barcodes. As shown in the fake cigarette in Figure 5, this is an imitation of the code of Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province. The first four abbreviations in the second row are the pinyin for Xinyu Tobacco, but the following numbers are the code for 3603 (Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province) , instead of the code 3605 of Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province.

5. The fake cigarette barcode is mysterious. Some unscrupulous cigarette dealers are worried that tobacco inspectors will use the real cigarette barcode as a clue to trace, so they will scratch off the real cigarette barcode, making it impossible to identify which cigarette dealer the cigarette came from.

Counterfeiters have also seized on the mentality of some people that the cigarettes with scratched barcodes may be genuine cigarettes illegally sold by cigarette dealers, and have also scratched the barcodes of counterfeit cigarettes. But what real cigarette dealers often scratch off are the key numbers and letters before and after the second row.

As shown in the real cigarette Furong King (hard) in Figure 6, only the code of Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province in front of the second row can be seen, but the cigarette dealer code cannot be seen. In order to cover up the defects of counterfeit cigarette barcodes, all the barcodes may be scratched and rendered unrecognizable.

As shown in Figure 7, the counterfeit cigarette shop

Extended information: With the comprehensive popularization of tobacco "one code per household" and "one code per article", cigarettes have been shipped out of the warehouse Scan the code before delivery. The current bar code scanning methods generally use laser scanning or inkjet coding. There are 32-bit information codes on the cigarette bar boxes, and they contain a large amount of information. 1-5 digits represent the delivery time.

The first digit represents the year, the second and third digits represent the month, and the fourth and fifth digits represent the date. The 6-14 digits are the cigarette code segment (the last 9 digits of the random code on the cigarette box), the 15-16 digits are the sequence code (between 01-50), and the 17-20 digits are the company information (can be *** digits or Enterprise Pinyin code), digits 21-32 are the retail license code.