Legal analysis: Breaking the law. Selling cigarettes without a license is an illegal business operation, and when the illegal business amount exceeds 50,000 yuan or the illegal income exceeds 20,000 yuan, it will constitute a crime. Selling cigarettes without a license refers to illegally operating tobacco without the permission of the tobacco monopoly administrative department, without tobacco monopoly production enterprise license, tobacco monopoly wholesale enterprise license, special tobacco monopoly business enterprise license, tobacco monopoly retail license and other license certificates. Exclusive items.

Legal basis: "Tobacco Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China"

Article 33 Production and sale of cigarettes, cigars, and packaged cut tobacco without registered trademarks If any, the industrial and commercial administration department shall order the company to stop production and sales and impose a fine. Anyone who produces or sells tobacco products that counterfeit someone else's registered trademark shall be ordered by the industrial and commercial administration department to stop the infringement, compensate the infringer for losses, and may also be fined; if a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law.

Article 35 If the reselling of tobacco monopoly products constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be pursued in accordance with the law; if the circumstances are minor and do not constitute a crime, the industrial and commercial administrative department shall confiscate the resold tobacco monopoly products and illegal gains, and may and impose a fine. Staff members of tobacco monopoly administrative departments and tobacco companies who take advantage of their positions to commit the crime in the preceding paragraph shall be severely punished in accordance with the law.