Company: XXII
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form Type: PRER14A
Source: 0001641172-25-014371
Chunk: 3

Company: 22nd Century Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form: PRER14A
Chunk 3
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, FL 33131 on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, beginning at 11:00 A.M., Eastern Time.

The meeting will be held for the following purposes:

| 1. | To                                                                                           
 elect as director the two (2) director nominees named in the attached proxy statement as     
 Class II directors to serve for a three-year period until the Annual Meeting of stockholders 
 in the year 2028, and in each instance, until their respective successors have been elected  
 and qualified (Proposal 1).                                                                  |

| 2. | To                                                                                             
 approve an advisory resolution approving executive compensation for fiscal year 2024 (Proposal 
 2).                                                                                            |

| 3. | To                                                                                          
 approve an advisory resolution on the frequency of advisory votes on executive compensation 
 (Proposal 3).                                                                               |

| 4. | To                                                                                        
 approve an amendment to our Articles of Incorporation, as amended, to increase the number 
 of authorized shares of common stock from two hundred fifty-million (250,000,000) shares  
 to five hundred million (500,000,000) (Proposal 4).                                       |

| 5. | To                                                                                                 
 approve the amendment and restatement of the 22nd Century Group, Inc. 2021 Omnibus Incentive       
 Plan which shall increase the number of shares authorized for issuance by five million (5,000,000) 
 (Proposal 5).                                                                                      |

| 6. | To                                                                                               
 approve an amendment to our Articles of Incorporation, as amended, to effect a reverse stock     
 split of our outstanding common stock at a ratio between 1-for-2 and 1-for-100, to be determined 
 at the discretion of our Board of Directors (the “Reverse Split”), for the purpose               
 of complying with the Nasdaq Listing Rules, subject to the Board’s discretion to abandon         
 such amendment (Proposal 6).                                                                     |

| 9. | To                                                                                   
 approve an amendment to the outstanding convertible Debentures (the “JGB Amendment”) 
 pursuant to Rules 5635(b) and 5635(d) of the Nasdaq Stock Market (Proposal 9).       |

| 10. | To                                                                                                 
 ratify the appointment of Freed Maxick CPAs, P.C. as our independent registered public accountants 
 for fiscal year 2025 (Proposal 10).                                                                |

| 11. | To                                                                                       
 approve the adjournment of the meeting, if necessary or