How to identify the authenticity of cigarettes?

Touch

Cigarettes, whether soft or hard-packed, are all wrapped with a transparent film. When consumers buy cigarettes, the first thing they come into contact with is the outer packaging.

Real cigarette: The plastic film feels smooth to the touch, has good transparency and good gloss. It is a special film. This film is only used for cigarette packaging. When you open it and touch it again, you will feel that the outer packaging film is thinner and softer to the touch.

Fake cigarettes: They use a general film with poor gloss. If you look at the cigarette box through the film, you will feel that the transparency is poor. If you touch it with your hands, it will feel sluggish. If you touch it again after taking it apart, you will feel this The film is thick and hard.

Second look: Identify by color. Consumers who regularly smoke one type of cigarette should pay attention to comparing the color of the cigarette packs when purchasing cigarettes. If possible, bring a real empty cigarette case with you the next time you buy cigarettes. No matter how realistic the fake cigarette box is, there is still a difference in color from the real cigarette box.

Identify it from cut tobacco. Some people mistakenly believe that the yellower the cut tobacco, the better the quality of the cigarette. In fact, this is a misunderstanding.

Real tobacco: The shredded tobacco of real tobacco has a natural color, with a yellowish to black color. There are generally no untreated tobacco stems in shredded tobacco, because untreated tobacco stems are difficult to burn and are prone to flameout. Regular manufacturers puff the tobacco stems during production.

Fake cigarettes: In order to confuse consumers, sulfur-smoked tobacco leaves are generally used to make the cut tobacco appear yellow and shiny. Tobacco stems are often seen in fake cigarettes. It is impossible for the manufacturer to expend effort on puffing the tobacco stems. It is a specialized process and requires the purchase of high-end equipment.

Identification from soot. After ordinary consumers smoke, they see white ash and think it is a good smoke. In fact, this is also a misunderstanding. In fact, the color of cigarette ash is affected by the dryness of the tobacco leaves. When the tobacco leaves are dry, the ash will appear gray-white after burning. On the contrary, it will be darker and harder to smoke.

To determine whether a cigarette is genuine or fake from the ash, you should observe during burning to see if there are tobacco stems emerging from the shredded tobacco. When tobacco stems appear, the cigarette will be difficult to smoke.

Three puffs

Smoking cigarettes is a more effective way for consumers to identify the authenticity of cigarettes. Generally, consumers will smoke one kind of cigarette for a long time, and if the taste suddenly changes greatly, they may encounter fake cigarettes.

Real smoke: Generally, the formula is relatively stable and the taste is also stable. For a variety of cigarettes from a regular cigarette factory, the ingredients are carefully selected and the formula is developed over a long period of time. Although the sources of tobacco leaves may come from different regions across the country, the stability of the taste can be guaranteed by using a comprehensive formula based on 40 levels of cut tobacco ingredients.

Fake cigarettes: Counterfeiters cannot take into account the issue of taste. If they can fool them into roughly similar cigarettes and exchange them for money, everything will be fine. It can also be said that fake cigarettes all taste the same.

Four disassembly

When it is difficult to identify the authenticity of the cigarette through the above methods, the most direct way is: dismantle it and take a look!

Opening the packaging box and identifying it through the adhesive method is a more direct way.

Real cigarettes: The packaging boxes are mass-produced by machines. The glue applied by the machine is dot-shaped glue dots. The glue dots on both sides of the cigarette box are even, regular and fixed in position.

For example, each cigarette box has three fixed glue points on the side, and the distance between each glue point is equal, about 10 centimeters. The glue on both sides of a pack of cigarette boxes is made by dispensing glue. If you tear it open and look at it, you can see neatly arranged little glue marks, with a distance of 2-2.5 mm between the two points. The glue marks on both sides are also very symmetrical.

Fake cigarettes: They are all artificially glued and applied with a brush. Taking it apart, you can clearly see the traces of the brush, and the glue marks on both sides of the cigarette box are also asymmetrical, which is very random.