Company: XXII
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001493152-25-020754
Chunk: 9

Company: 22nd Century Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form: 424B5
Chunk 9
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 in the market regarding the industry in which we operate, our operations, business prospects or liquidity, or this offering. In addition to the risk factors discussed in our periodic reports and in this prospectus supplement, the price and volume volatility of our common stock may be affected by actual or anticipated sales of common stock by us and/or our directors, officers or stockholders, whether in the market, in connection with business acquisitions, in this offering or in subsequent public offerings. Stock markets in general have at times experienced extreme volatility unrelated to the operating performance of particular companies. These broad market fluctuations may adversely affect the trading price of our common stock, regardless of our operating results.

As a result, these fluctuations in the market price and trading volume of our common stock may make it difficult to predict the market price of our common stock in the future, cause the value of your investment to decline and make it more difficult to resell our common stock.

Management will have broad discretion as to the use of the proceeds of this offering, and we may use the proceeds in ways in which you and other stockholders may disagree.

We have not designated the amount of net proceeds we will receive from this offering for any particular purpose. We may use a portion of the net proceeds to invest in new or different products and intellectual property. Our management will have broad discretion over the use and investment of the net proceeds from this offering, and, accordingly, investors in this offering will need to rely upon the judgment of our management with respect to the use of proceeds, with only limited information concerning our specific intentions. Our stockholders may not agree with the manner in which our management chooses to allocate and spend the net proceeds.

Investors in this offering may suffer immediate and substantial dilution in the net tangible book value per share of our common stock.

Because the price per share of common stock in this offering may be higher than the net tangible book value per share of our common stock, investors in this offering may suffer immediate and substantial dilution in the net tangible book value per share of common stock. The shares in this offering will be sold at market prices which may fluctuate substantially. Please refer to the section below entitled “Dilution” for more information.

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You may experience future dilution as a result of future equity offerings or acquisitions.

In order to raise additional capital, we may in the future offer additional shares of our common stock or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for our common stock at prices that may not be the same as the price per share in this