Company: XXII
Filing Date: 2025-02-05
Form Type: S-3/A
Source: 0001493152-25-005039
Chunk: 4

Company: 22nd Century Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-05
Form: S-3/A
Chunk 4
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 prospects, financial condition, assumptions or future events are forward-looking statements. You can identify these statements by words such as “aim,” “anticipate,” “assume,” “believe,” “could,” “due,” “estimate,” “expect,” “goal,” “intend,” “may,” “objective,” “plan,” “potential,” “positioned,” “predict,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would” and other similar expressions that are predictions of or indicate future events and future trends. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about our business and the industry in which we operate and our management’s beliefs and assumptions. These statements are not guarantees of future performance or development and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that are in some cases beyond our control. All forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those that we expected, including the following summary of risk factors:

| ● | We                                                                                                                                
 have had a history of losses and negative cash flows, and we may be unable to achieve and sustain profitability and positive cash 
 flows from operations.                                                                                                            |

| ● | Our                                     
 ability to continue as a going concern. |

| ● | Our                                                                                                                                
 competitors generally have, and any future competitors may have, greater financial resources and name recognition than we do, and  
 they may therefore develop products or other technologies similar or superior to ours, or otherwise compete more successfully than 
 we do.                                                                                                                             |

| ● | Our                                                                                                                                   
 research and development process may not develop marketable products, which would result in loss of our investment into such process. |

| ● | The                                                                                                                                  
 failure of our information systems to function as intended or their penetration by outside parties with the intent to corrupt them   
 could result in business disruption, litigation and regulatory action, and loss of revenue, assets, or personal or confidential data 
 (cybersecurity).                                                                                                                     |

| ● | We                                                                                                                      
 may be unsuccessful at commercializing our Very Low Nicotine “VLN” tobacco using the reduced exposure claims authorized 
 by the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”).                                                                            |

| ● | The                                                                                                                                  
 manufacturing of tobacco products subjects us to significant governmental regulation and the failure to comply with such regulations 
 could have a material adverse effect on our business and subject us to substantial fines or other regulatory actions.                |

| ● | We                                                                                                                                
 may become subject to litigation related to cigarette smoking and/or exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, or E