The punishment standard for selling fake cigarettes is: whoever sells 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 be fined not less than 50% but not more than two times the sales amount; Whoever sells more than 200,000 yuan but less than 500,000 yuan 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.
What is the situation of fake cigarettes?
Selling fake cigarettes is a criminal case. According to the law, those who produce and sell fake and inferior cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco monopoly products with a sales amount of more than 50,000 yuan shall be convicted and punished for the crime of producing and selling fake and inferior products in accordance with the provisions of Article 140 of the Criminal Law.
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Legal basis: Article 140 of the Criminal Law stipulates that producers and sellers who adulterate their products with fake products, pass fake products off as genuine products, and pass unqualified products off 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 be fined not less than 50% but not more than two times the sales amount; 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 is more than 2 million yuan, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of 15 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined more than 50% but less than 2 times the sales amount or his property shall be confiscated.