Company: XXII
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001493152-25-028573
Chunk: 30

Company: 22nd Century Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 30
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 capital to fund our operations in the future on terms favorable to us or at all. If approved, the Proposed New Offering will be dilutive to current stockholders.

| Our Board of Directors recommends that the stockholders vote “FOR” Proposal 4 to 
 approve the Potential Future Offering.                                           |

| PROXY STATEMENT | 20 |

<div align='center'>Proposal FIVE:

The adjournment of the meeting, if necessary or advisable, to solicit additional

proxies in favor of Proposals 1, 2, 3 OR 4.</div>

We are asking our stockholders to authorize us to adjourn the Special Meeting to another time and place, if necessary or advisable, to solicit additional proxies in the event there are not sufficient votes to approve Proposals 1, 2, 3 or 4 described in this proxy statement at the Special Meeting. If our stockholders approve this proposal, we could adjourn the Special Meeting to solicit additional proxies and/or to seek to convince stockholders to change their votes in favor of such proposals.

If it is necessary or advisable to adjourn the Special Meeting, no notice of any adjournment of less than thirty (30) days is required to be given if the time and place of the adjourned meeting, and the means of remote communication, if any, by which stockholders and proxyholders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such adjourned meeting, are announced at the meeting at which adjournment is taken, unless after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting. At the adjourned meeting, we may transact any business which might have been transacted at the original meeting.

| Our Board of Directors recommends that the stockholders vote “FOR” Proposal 5, the adjournment                                  
 of the meeting, if necessary or advisable, to solicit additional proxies in the event there are not sufficient votes to approve 
 Proposals 1, 2, 3 or 4.                                                                                                         |

| PROXY STATEMENT | 21 |

<div align='center'>Beneficial Ownership</div>

The following table sets forth information regarding the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of January 2, 2026, by

| (i)   | each                                                                 
 person who, to our knowledge, owns more than 5% of our common stock, |
| (ii)  | each                                                                 
 of our current directors and executive officers, and                 |
| (