Is it illegal to operate real cigarettes without a license? Recently, the People's Court of Shaoshan City, Hunan Province, sentenced the defendant Chang to one year in prison, suspended for one year, and fined 10,000 yuan for the crime of illegal business operation; 8,380 yuan of defendant Chang's illegal gains were recovered and handed over to the state treasury. Chang runs a teahouse in Shaoshan, and without the permission of the tobacco monopoly administrative department and without the tobacco monopoly retail license, in order to facilitate the operation of the teahouse and driven by profits, Chang authorized the clerk to buy cigarettes worth 115,050 yuan from a number of nearby stores a... [Read more]