Company: XXII
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001493152-25-029651
Chunk: 32

Company: 22nd Century Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-30
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 32
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 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 | 18 |

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

The following table sets forth information regarding the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of December 30, 2025, 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                 |
| (iii) | all                                                                  
 our current directors and executive officers as a group.             |

Derivative securities exercisable or convertible into shares of our common stock within sixty (60) days of December 30, 2025 are deemed to be beneficially owned and outstanding for computing the share ownership and percentage of the person holding securities but are not deemed outstanding for computing the percentage of any other person. Beneficial ownership representing less than 1% is denoted with an asterisk (*). The address of named beneficial owners that are officers and/or directors of the Company is: c/o 22nd Century Group, Inc., 321 Farmington Road, Mocksville, North Carolina. 27028. The following table is based upon information supplied by officers and directors, and with respect to 5% or greater stockholders who are not officers or directors, information filed with the SEC.

|                                                                       |     | Number of    |         |     |              |         |   |
|                                                                       |     | Shares       |         |     | Percentage   |         |   |
|                                                                       |     | Beneficially |         |     | Beneficially |         |   |
| Name of Beneficial Owner                                              |     | Owned        |         |     | Owned (1)    |         |   |
| 5% + Beneficial Stockholders                                          |     |              |         |     |              |         |   |
| Anson Funds Management LP (2)                                         |     |              | 763,212 |     |              |    9.