The counterfeit high-end cigarettes that appear on the market are made with sophisticated techniques, and most of them are rolled mechanically. In addition, the trademarks and packaging of the cigarette boxes are the same as those of real cigarettes, which is enough to look real. However, the production of counterfeit cigarettes is subject to certain conditions, and they can still be identified upon closer inspection. You can identify whether a cigarette is counterfeit by looking at its appearance and internal quality. (1) Appearance: One type is a brand-name cigarette package that is privately made and imitated by criminals. Due to the limitations of its conditions, this kind of packaging generally has blurred writing, incorrect toner, inaccurate color registration, and obvious plate deviation. The text on fake cigarette paper is usually engraved on the mold first and then printed on, and the fine parts of the pattern often appear rough, making it easier to identify. The other is to put fake cigarettes in real packaging. This requires some expertise. Criminals often use real cigarette packaging paper that is discarded during test runs in printing factories. This type of paper is accurate in plate making, but because it is used during test runs, most of the colors are incorrect and the colors are misregistered. There are also a small number of criminals who collude internally and externally to roll counterfeit cigarettes using genuine wrapping paper stolen from the same cigarette factory. This requires careful inspection of the packaging of cellophane outside the cigarette box. At present, high-end cigarettes are packed with cellophane. Regular cigarette factories use automatic packaging. When packaging cellophane, the packaging machine has the ability to heat press. The bonded cellophane is very flat after hot pressing and is attached to the paper inside with appropriate tightness. The hand-wrapped cellophane has not been hot-pressed and is not flat. In order to obtain a flat surface, it must be stretched very tightly, causing the inner wrapping paper to be uneven. Cellophane is generally crooked, dirty, and loose. In addition, all cigarettes with cellophane have open drawstrings. The exposed ends of genuine drawstrings are round, while fake ones are often cut all the way to the ends. Genuine cigarettes are rolled and cut by machine. The cuts are flush, round and full. The font, production month, and shift code on the cigarette are clear and complete. The seams are in a straight line without cigarette dust. Cigarettes are uniform in length and thickness. The incisions of fake cigarettes are hairy and out of round, the surface is not clean, the seams are skewed, and there are often cigarette powders in them. The length, thickness and tightness of the cigarettes are not uniform. From the outside, the length of the yellow tipping paper wrapped around the filters of real and fake cigarettes may be the same, but in fact the lengths of the filter rods inside are different. The overlap of the tipping paper of genuine cigarettes is generally 4mm, and the steel stamp on the cigarette is 31-35mm from the upper end of the mouth, and the steel stamps are on the same straight line. Counterfeit cigarettes generally have a shorter filter tip. Use paper (white paper) to roll up the cut tobacco and the filter tip at the same time. The gap between the tipping paper and the tip is about 10mm. The cut tobacco is loose at the gap, and may even be loose and leaky. The stamps and fonts on the cigarettes are light in color and unevenly positioned. (2) Intrinsic quality: Genuine cigarettes are produced by machines. They are first rolled into cigarettes, cut and then assembled with filters. The cigarettes are of the same length and thickness, and the filters are also of the same length and thickness. Because the cut tobacco of counterfeit cigarettes is put in manually, the length after rolling into cigarettes is roughly the same, but the thickness and elasticity are different, and the cut tobacco at the joint with the filter is loose; and from the outside, although the yellow wrapping paper of the filter is the same length, in fact The filter rods inside are of varying lengths, generally very short, and some are only 1/3 as long as a normal mouth. In order to accurately identify, consumers can disassemble the yellow paper. As long as it is the cigarette paper (that is, white paper) and the tobacco and the filter are rolled up at the same time, it must be a counterfeit cigarette; if the filter tip inside is shorter than the yellow paper outside Many of them are also fake cigarettes. When the National Tobacco Factory produces cigarettes, the cut tobacco must undergo fermentation and puffing treatments to prevent it from becoming moldy or drying out during long-term storage. The cut tobacco is slender and even (the length of the cut tobacco is 0.6-0.7mm), with very few stems, pure color, and an oily feel. . Handmade cigarettes have not gone through fermentation and puffing processes, so they have an obvious grassy smell when inhaled. In pursuit of similarity in appearance and color, some criminals dye inferior tobacco leaves with chemical pigments or mix them with loess. This kind of tobacco has an obvious spicy or earthy smell when smoked, and the shredded tobacco is finely chopped and mixed in color. There are even large "smoke sticks". The national cigarette standards stipulate that starting from January 1, 1987, all cigarettes must be marked with the tar grade contained on the small box packaging, that is, the tar grade shall be marked on the side of the small box: high, medium and low grade.

Those with a tar content of less than 15mg per cigarette are considered low-end; those with a tar content between 15mg and 25mg are considered mid-range; those with a tar content greater than 25mg are considered high-end. Counterfeit cigarette packages do not have this statement. (3) Identification of counterfeiting techniques. The appearance and internal quality of counterfeit cigarettes on the market in recent years are not significantly different from the genuine ones. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out sensory evaluation and comparative identification of the genuine product and the inspected product at the same time. From the perspective of counterfeiting techniques, counterfeit cigarettes can be roughly divided into three categories: 1. Handmade counterfeit cigarettes. Manufacturers use raw tobacco, cigarette scraps or homemade tobacco to hand-make cigarettes that are counterfeiting authentic products. This type of counterfeit cigarettes are easier to identify due to their poor appearance and intrinsic quality. Because the quality of this counterfeit cigarette tobacco is very low and the manufacturing process is rough. Some cut tobacco has also been chemically dyed, so it is the most harmful to human health. 2. Machine-made counterfeit cigarettes. Such cigarettes are usually counterfeit cigarettes smuggled in from abroad or illegally manufactured by "underground cigarette factories" in mainland China. Such counterfeit cigarettes often have their own formulas and relatively complete processes and equipment. Although there are many differences compared with authentic products, their appearance and quality are usually very similar to authentic products, making it easy for consumers to be deceived. There are a large number of such counterfeit cigarettes and they are currently the main form of counterfeit cigarettes. 3. Counterfeit cigarettes with manually changed packaging. Using cigarettes of the same specification (such as defective cigarettes or low-grade cigarettes) or different brands, the original wrapping paper is removed through manual operation and converted into a brand with a higher grade or price. Such as "Yunyan" and "Camellia" modified from defective cigarettes, fully packaged "Peony" modified from simple "Peony", "Yellow Red Plum" modified from "White Red Plum", etc.