Can I report buying fake cigarettes?

If you buy fake cigarettes, you can call 123 15 to report to the industrial and commercial bureau or complain to the tobacco department. If it is identified as counterfeit cigarettes, the tobacco management department will order the merchants to compensate the consumers. In addition, the sale of counterfeit drugs is suspected of illegal crimes, and the public security organs file a case, which does not constitute a crime, and the tobacco department will impose administrative penalties on it.

Those who illegally operate tobacco monopoly products, including selling fake cigarettes, selling smuggled cigarettes, transporting without a license, operating without a license, and producing without a license, should bear administrative responsibility and even criminal responsibility. In addition to the confiscation of illegal income, a fine will be imposed, and those with serious circumstances will be investigated for criminal responsibility. If the merchant cheats the consumer, the consumer can demand triple compensation.

As can be seen from the above, the national laws stipulate that the sale of counterfeit cigarettes shall be punished by the industrial and commercial departments. After receiving the report, the tobacco department will crack down on tobacco-related illegal and criminal activities in accordance with the principles of immediate investigation of reports, immediate investigation of complaints and strict confidentiality.

Legal basis:

Regulations on the implementation of tobacco monopoly law

Article 27

No unit or individual may sell illegally produced tobacco products.

Article 62

Whoever, in violation of the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 27 and Article 40 of these regulations, sells illegally produced tobacco monopoly products shall be ordered by the department of tobacco monopoly administration to stop selling, confiscate the illegal income, impose a fine of more than 20% and less than 50% of the total illegal sales, and publicly destroy the illegally sold tobacco monopoly products.

Law of the People's Republic of China on Protection of Consumer Rights and Interests

Article 55

If an operator commits fraud in providing goods or services, it shall increase the compensation for the losses suffered by consumers as required, and the compensation amount shall be three times the price of the goods purchased by consumers or the cost of receiving services; If the amount of additional compensation is less than that of 500 yuan, it shall be 500 yuan. Where there are other provisions in the law, those provisions shall prevail.