Company: XXII
Filing Date: 2025-01-31
Form Type: S-3
Source: 0001493152-25-004469
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Company: 22nd Century Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-31
Form: S-3
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 Modified Risk Tobacco Products by the FDA. Additionally, we provide contract manufacturing services for conventional combustible tobacco products for third-party brands.

Our mission in tobacco is dedicated to mitigating the harms of smoking through our proprietary reduced nicotine content (“RNC”) tobacco plants and our Very Low Nicotine, VLN® combustible cigarette products. In December 2021, we secured the first and only authorization from the FDA to market a combustible cigarette, our brand VLN ® as a Modified Risk Tobacco Product (“MRTP”) using certain reduced nicotine exposure claims. In April 2022, the inaugural launch of our proprietary VLN ® cigarettes commenced through a pilot program in select Circle K stores in and around Chicago, Illinois. Building on the success of the pilot, we initiated a phased rollout strategy in 2023, progressing state by state and region by region to a store footprint spanning more than 5,000 stores in 26 states. Our VLN ® tobacco products are supported by a substantial intellectual property portfolio comprising issued patents and patent applications related to tobacco plants, and in particular our reduced nicotine tobacco plants.

In addition to continued focus on VLN® , we renewed our focus on utilizing our tobacco assets to attract additional tobacco business to help fund the growth of VLN ® . In addition to existing business relationships with multiple tobacco products companies, we will continue to expand the number of brands in our contract manufacturing operations (“CMO”) portfolio in 2024.

Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 and subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q provide additional information about our business, operations and financial condition.

We are a Nevada corporation and our corporate headquarters is located at 321 Farmington Rd, Mocksville, NC 27028. Our telephone number is (336) 940-3769. Our internet address is www.xxiicentury.com. We do not incorporate the information on our website into this prospectus, and you should not consider it to be a part of this prospectus. Our web site address is included as an inactive textual reference only.

<div align='center'>Use of Proceeds</div>

We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares being sold by the selling stockholders.

<div align='center'>Risk Factors</div>

Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the specific risks set forth under the caption “Risk Factors” in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, incorporated into this prospect