To identify genuine and fake cigarettes, it is effective to identify counterfeit cigarettes from two aspects: cigarette appearance, packaging, cigarette packaging and the internal quality of cigarettes. The main points of identification are as follows:
1. Identification from the appearance packaging of cigarettes:
1. Famous and famous boxes of cigarettes are generally produced and packaged by imported machines. The transparent paper on the box is flat, clean, compact and beautiful, and the transparent paper lap is mostly located at the lower end of the top cover of the box for heating and bonding. The small box packed with transparent paper, the cable is 4-7 mm away from the upper end, and one end of the cable is 5Mm unbonded, which is used as a handle. The cable head is in the shape of a uvula, and the transparent paper joint is also heated and bonded, clean, moderate in hardness < P > and crisp. The paper-pulling heads of counterfeit cigarettes are generally flat-headed, narrow in width, some of which are inclined, and most of them have no pulling heads. Transparent paper is glued with milk viscose and is easy to loosen. A few days ago, most of the cigarette paper was printed with the manufacturer's inscription, and some cigarette cables used fluorescent fiber anti-counterfeiting cables, such as Huangshan, Yipin Huangshan, Jinye and other cigarette cables produced by Bengbu Cigarette Factory, which used fluorescent fiber anti-counterfeiting cables:
2. From the appearance, the trademark paper of the famous cigarette box has no obvious edges and corners, and the sealing flowers are bonded with transparent adhesive, and there are obvious offset printing. The trademark pattern and words are clear and complete, and the color is bright; Counterfeit cigarettes are generally irregular, and the corner is obviously 9 degrees. The two ends of the sealing flowers are bonded with rubber, which is the most obvious difference between counterfeit cigarettes and famous cigarettes. The use of waste boxes and small boxes to counterfeit cigarettes has a rough surface, some anti-printing patterns and words are dark and light, and the small fonts on both sides of the trademark are blurred or incomplete. Some are missing, overlapping and misprinting. Some fake cigarettes have other designs, such as fake frosted clouds with thumbs up. Others add words, such as the Year of the Tiger on the side of the counterfeit Yuxi cigarette factory. The best red berries, Hongtashan, Yuxi and Ashima in the Year of the Ox, the Year of the Exemption and the Year of the Pig, fake Yuxi cigarette factory to celebrate Macao's return to 2 sticks of red berries, 25 sticks of red berries and Hongtashan. The trademark design of these counterfeit cigarettes is different from that of real famous cigarettes, and they tend to be dim and dull in color. The reason why criminals change the patterns or characters of famous cigarettes is nothing more than to attract consumers' attention. The unreasonable consumers thought that the cigarette factory had developed a brand with a new taste.
3. Needle holes of famous cigarettes, which are 1-4 cuts left by the machine bag at the corners of the bottom of the small box of cigarettes produced by the machine. Most counterfeit cigarettes are hand-packed, generally without needle holes, which is one of the important signs of true and false cigarettes. In addition, some anti-counterfeiting signs such as quality code or tracking batch code and pattern mark printed by inkjet printer are printed on the bottom of the outer packaging of some famous cigarette boxes. Such as Huangshan and Green Huangshan in Bengbu Cigarette Factory, Hongtashan and Ashima in Yuxi Cigarette Factory.
4. Both sides of the small box of famous cigarettes are folded by machines, which are flat and have the same angle. Fake cigarettes are generally folded by hand, with different convex and concave angles.
5. The aluminum foil paper of famous cigarettes is even in thickness, silvery white and bright, and some famous cigarettes also have an organic stamp on the aluminum foil paper, which is impossible for counterfeit cigarettes. Some famous cigarettes are printed with Chinese characters or Chinese characters and pinyin factory names and other words or patterns on aluminum foil paper. For example, the cigarette aluminum foil paper of Ningbo Cigarette Factory and Hong 'an Cigarette Factory is printed with Chinese characters and pinyin factory names; The cigarette aluminum foil paper of Bengbu Cigarette Factory is stamped with the name of Bengbu Cigarette Factory inscribed by the famous calligrapher Zhang Kaifan, and the English logo of "BENCBU CIGARFJTE FACTORY" is printed on the aluminum foil paper on its back, which has a special font and is not easy to imitate. Mao Zedong's handwriting "Serving the People" is printed on the aluminum foil paper of Xianning Cigarette Factory, while the Hongtashan cigarette of Yuxi Cigarette Factory is printed with the cursive pinyin of Hongtashan and the pattern of "Dragon Horse". The aluminum foil paper used for counterfeit cigarettes has been inferior for many times, with slight silver color, uneven thickness and rough surface.
2. Identification from the packaging and molding of cigarettes
1. A layer of yellow water-sticky paper wrapped on the filter tip of famous cigarettes, the joint of tipping paper is generally 4mn, and the steel seal of cigarettes is 31-35mm away from the upper end of the tip, and the steel seal is on the same straight line, and the weight of cigarettes is about 1.15g／/cigarette. Tipping paper, a fake cigarette, is about 1MM long, and the steel seal and font on the cigarette are light in color and uneven in up and down positions.
2. The famous thread paper and tipping paper mostly have anti-counterfeiting features. For example, anti-counterfeiting thread cigarette paper with watermark "YXCF" and tipping paper with printed brand name are used in the cigarette text of Hongtashan cigarette. The cigarette text is beautiful and powerful in shape. After the cigarette is smoked, the color at the end of the filter tip is light outside and deep inside.
3. The cigarette text and joint of famous cigarettes are full and elastic; Counterfeit cigarettes are soft at the mouth, and some even have a wide gap between them; The cigarette cuts of famous cigarettes are flush, round and full, and the surface is smooth. The font, production shift code and month on the cigarettes are clear and complete, and the lap joint is straight without tobacco. The cut of counterfeit cigarettes is rough and round, the surface is not smooth and clean, and the lap joint is inclined and straight, often with tobacco powder. Famous tobacco shreds are generally in the range of .6-.7 mm, with few stems. The width of counterfeit tobacco shreds is generally thin, short and uneven, and some are still stems.
3. Observing from the internal quality
1. The tobacco leaves used in famous and famous flue-cured tobacco are generally orange, golden or yellow, shiny and oily, and basically have no cyan. Most of the counterfeit cut tobacco is brown-black and bluish-brown, with different shades and dull luster. When sniffing famous cigarettes, they all have a fragrant smell, and the mixed aroma of natural aroma and essence of cigarettes is obviously soft, which makes people feel comfortable after smelling. Counterfeit cigarettes have a single flavor that makes people feel uncomfortable, or the flavor is flat, because of excessive flavoring and inferior flavors used. If the time is long, the fragrance will be distributed and the miscellaneous gas will be exposed.
2. Smoking, which is fully fermented and scientifically formulated by Ding Mingyou tobacco leaves. When smoking, people's throat is mellow, plump, elegant and fragrant, with moderate strength, little irritation and comfortable aftertaste. Most of the tobacco leaves like counterfeit cigarettes are not fermented, and when smoking, the smoke is inhaled into the throat, which is spicy and bitter. The strength varies, and the green odor is obvious. There is another point that can't be ignored, that is, after the famous cigarettes are lit, the smoldering is good. If they don't go out, the ash is gray and round, and generally does not come off. After the counterfeit cigarettes are lit, smoldering is easy to go out, and the ash is mostly black, which is scattered after being blown out when burning.
Finally, it needs to be added that the famous cigarettes sold in the market are beautifully packaged, and most of the famous cigarettes are packaged with hard-flip anti-counterfeiting cigarette cases: at present, various cigarette manufacturers in China generally use the following anti-counterfeiting technologies to print hard-flip cigarette cases: the laser color-changing anti-counterfeiting (information anti-counterfeiting) technology is the earliest and often used to print cigarette cases, such as welcome pine. Cigarette cases printed by fluorescent ink anti-counterfeiting technology, such as Camellia, Xiniuwang and other cigarette cases; Watermark anti-counterfeiting cigarette cases include cigarette basins such as Golden Huangguoshu, but for cigarette cases using these two anti-counterfeiting technologies, consumers must be equipped with money detectors, otherwise it is difficult to find fluorescent patterns or watermark dark lines only by naked eyes or changing visual angles. Cigarette cases printed by temperature change anti-counterfeiting technology include Xi Niu Wang, osmanthus and so on; Famous cigarette cases, such as Wuxing Guangong, Xinshijiazhuang, etc., which are rectangular in shape and marked with the words "anti-counterfeiting mark"; Using luminous anti-counterfeiting such as Gutian cigarette case. In addition, the latest versions of Camellia sinensis, Ashima, Shilin and Hongmei cigarette cases are printed with numbers consistent with the side of the cigarette case, which is difficult to find if they are not viewed at a moderate angle of light change.
I hope that all cigarette manufacturers will vigorously publicize the characteristics of counterfeit brand-name cigarettes and authentic cigarettes to every smoker while making anti-counterfeiting cigarette labels, so that the interests of cigarette manufacturers and smokers will not be infringed by counterfeit cigarettes.