How to punish selling fake cigarettes?

Selling fake cigarettes is an act of selling fake and inferior products, and serious circumstances constitute the crime of selling fake and inferior commodities. The specific conviction and sentencing depends on the sales amount and other circumstances. According to Article 140 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), producers and sellers who adulterate products, pass off fake products as genuine products, and pass off unqualified products as qualified products, with a sales amount of more than 50,000 yuan but less than 200,000 yuan, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined not less than 50% but not more than two times the sales amount.

What is the punishment standard for selling fake cigarettes?

1. The legal liability for selling fake cigarettes is determined according to the specific amount.

2. When the actor intentionally manufactures and sells fake and inferior products, and the sales amount reaches more than 50,000 yuan as stipulated by law, it constitutes a crime.

3. The act of producing and selling fake and inferior products with a sales amount of less than 50,000 yuan is generally illegal and can be given administrative punishment by the administrative department for industry and commerce according to law.

4. Legal basis: criminal law

Article 140 Producers and sellers who commit the crime of producing and selling fake and inferior products, adulterate the products, pass off fake products as genuine products, pass off substandard products as qualified products, and the sales amount is more than 50,000 yuan but less than 200,000 yuan, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined not less than 50% but not more than 200,000 yuan. If the sales amount is more than 200,000 yuan but less than 500,000 yuan, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than two years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined not less than 50% but not more than two times the sales amount; If the sales amount is more than 500,000 yuan but less than 2 million yuan, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of more than seven years, and shall also be fined more than 50% but less than two times the sales amount; If the sales amount exceeds two million yuan, fifteen.