"Zhonghua" brand cigarettes are high-end famous and high-quality cigarettes in my country. They are known as "National Cigarettes". With their popularity in the market, counterfeiting has become more and more serious. Identifying authenticity has become a key factor for consumers to avoid buying. An important means to detect counterfeit cigarettes. Here are some tips for identifying genuine and fake Chinese cigarettes.
1. The main characteristics of real cigarettes in hard-packed Chinese cigarettes
Carton packaging
(1) The transparent paper of real cigarette packaging has a smooth feel due to low friction resistance , good gloss, while fake cigarettes have large friction resistance, sluggishness and poor gloss. The transparent packaging of fake cigarettes is larger than the carton, especially the difference is obvious at both ends of the carton.
(2) The real cigarette rods are packed with gold wire without letters, and the wire head is semicircular, which can be pulled out clockwise, while the fake cigarette butts are not uniform in style.
(3) Use a magnifying glass to look at the base of the Zhenyan Zhonghua logo. You will find that the small dots on it are five-pointed stars, and at the same time, there are English miniature letters of YC in the middle. The enlarged picture of the origin logo is also very It is easy to identify, and you can see miniature information such as tian~an-door.
(4) The transparent paper of real cigarettes is glued on the side with the barcode and is parallel to the edge, in a straight line, with a uniform width, while fake cigarettes are not parallel, straight, and uneven.
(5) The real cigarette box adopts a European-style top-opening lid, and the inside of the plastic film in the upper right corner of the box adopts automatic inkjet invisible anti-counterfeiting technology. The anti-counterfeiting mark appears purple-blue under UV light. The anti-counterfeiting mark uses the two letters of the group's logo, and the ten digits (divided into two lines) ZH are the prefixes of Chinese Pinyin, and the last ten digits respectively represent the production date, shift, and vehicle number.
(6) For old recycled strip boxes, when identifying, pay attention to the fact that there are often traces of wear and stain on the corners; there are often traces of being sealed twice or being removed and then sealed again.
Look at the small box packaging
(1) The plastic film in the box of real cigarettes feels smooth and shiny, while the fake cigarettes are sluggish.
(2) Real cigarettes are packaged with no letter strings, and the string head is square and pulled clockwise; while fake cigarettes have various types of strings.
(3) The transparent paper of real cigarettes is glued to the side of the barcode with the aphorism, and the glue is flat, straight, and even; while the fake cigarettes are not parallel, straight, and not even enough.
(4) The anti-counterfeiting mark is on the lower edge of the front of the box, and "Produced by Shanghai Cigarette Factory, China" is on the inside of the lower transparent paper. Except for being arranged in a row and without group patterns, it is consistent with the anti-counterfeiting technology and content of the carton.
(5) The small box of real cigarettes and the lining paper are sealed with a glue line on the left and right, in a figure-eight shape, and two glue lines on the front and back, while fake cigarettes are in the form of non-stick or irregular sheets.
(6) There is a two-digit alphanumeric password stamped on the bottom of the small box of real cigarettes, which represents the year, month, and vehicle number.
Look at cigarettes
(1) The order of numbers of real cigarettes is 7, 7, 6, while fake cigarettes are generally 7, 6, 7.
(2) The length, circumference, appearance and steel seal of real cigarettes are standardized; the steel seal of fake cigarettes is blurred and the length of cigarettes is uneven.
Look at cut tobacco
(1) Real cut tobacco is composed of cut tobacco, expanded cut tobacco and a small amount of cut stems.
(2) The color of real tobacco is orange to golden, and the color is oily, while the color of fake tobacco is black and the gloss is poor.
(3) The expanded shredded tobacco of real cigarettes adopts the carbon dioxide (dry ice) expansion method; while fake cigarettes have no floating shredded tobacco. Compared with Yunnan cigarettes, Zhonghua brand cigarettes have a stronger flavor, rich, mellow and harmonious aroma, no irritation, and a clean and comfortable aftertaste with moderate strength; while fake cigarettes have poor aroma, greater irritation, and unclean aftertaste.
2. Key points and steps for identifying the authenticity of Zhonghua cigarettes:
(1) Check whether the last digits in the three places are consistent, that is: the last digit of the anti-counterfeiting mark on the box , the last number of the anti-counterfeiting mark on the small box, the last digit of a letter and two digits printed on the bottom of the small box, and whether the three numbers are the same.
(2) Check whether the cord head of the strip box is semi-circular and whether the cord head of the small box is square.
(3) First, the extra-large black letter "中华" appears in front of you, followed by the words "THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA" and eight five-pointed stars.
(4) The miniature text on the hot stamping area of ??the fake cigarette box cover is blurred