Legal analysis: Violation of the Tobacco Monopoly Law. Chapter 1 Article 3 The state implements monopoly management of the production, sales, import and export of tobacco monopoly products in accordance with the law, and implements a tobacco monopoly license system. Chapter 3 Article 12 To establish a tobacco product manufacturing enterprise, it must be approved by the tobacco monopoly administrative department of the State Council, obtain a tobacco monopoly manufacturing enterprise license, and be approved and registered by the industrial and commercial administrative department; its division, merger, and cancellation must be approved by the State Council The tobacco monopoly administrative department shall approve the change and cancel registration procedures with the industrial and commercial administrative department. If a tobacco monopoly production enterprise license has not been obtained, the industrial and commercial administrative department shall not approve the registration.

The above are legal provisions. To put it bluntly, from the cultivation and purchase of tobacco leaves, to the processing and packaging of cigarettes, and the transportation and sales of finished cigarettes, including the raw and auxiliary materials and processing tools (such as cigarette machines) used, these are all in the " Under the management of the Tobacco Monopoly Law, its purpose is to "implement tobacco monopoly management, organize the production and operation of tobacco monopoly products in a planned manner, improve the quality of tobacco products, safeguard the interests of consumers, and ensure national fiscal revenue." To be strict, it is necessary. Even if it is a state-owned cigarette factory, even if it produces cigarettes beyond the plan, it is illegal.

According to the legal liability provisions in the last chapter, the lighter case is confiscation of fines, and serious cases may be punished by imprisonment

Legal basis: The Third Tobacco Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China Article 1 The state implements monopoly management of the production, sales, import and export of tobacco monopoly products in accordance with the law, and implements a tobacco monopoly license system.