Company: XXII
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001641172-25-014543
Chunk: 52

Company: 22nd Century Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 52
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 of outstanding options and vesting of restricted stock units under the amended and restated 22 ndCentury Group Inc. 2021 Plan and our prior 2014 Equity Incentive Plan , the weighted-average exercise price of such stock options, and the number of securities available to be issued under the Plan as of December 31, 2024:

|                                                            |     | Number of securities to 
 be issued upon exercise 
 of outstanding options, 
 and restricted stock    
 units,                  
 (a)                     |             |     | Weighted average    
 exercise price of   
 outstanding options 
 (b)                 |      |     | Number of securities     
 remaining available for  
 issuance under           
 equity                   
 compensation plans       
 (excluding securities    
 reflected in column (a)) 
 (c)                      |           |    |
|:-----------------------------------------------------------|:----|:------------------------|------------:|:----|:--------------------|-----:|:----|:-------------------------|----------:|---:|
| Equity compensation plans approved by security holders     |     |                         | 638,360 (1) |     | $                   | 2.01 |     |                          | 4,694,636 |    |
| Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders |     |                         |           — |     |                     |  N/A |     |                          |         — |    |
| Total                                                      |     |                         |     638,360 |     |                     |    — |     |                          | 4,694,636 | -2 |

| (1) | Number                                                                                        
 of outstanding options are 478,777 and number of unvested restricted stock units are 159,583. |
| (2) | Consists                                                                                      
 of shares available for award under the Plan.                                                 |

<div align='center'>Our Board of Directors recommends a vote “FOR” the approval of the amendment and restatement of the 22nd Century Group, Inc. 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan.</div>

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<div align='center'>PROPOSAL NO. 6

APPROVAL OF THE AMENDMENT TO EFFECT THE REVERSE STOCK SPLIT</div>

Overview

We are seeking stockholder approval to grant our Board of Directors discretionary authority to amend our Articles of Incorporation to effect a reverse split of all our outstanding shares of common stock, at a ratio between 1-for-2 and 1-for-100, to be determined at the discretion of our Board of Directors (