Company: XXII
Filing Date: 2025-06-06
Form Type: PRER14A
Source: 0001641172-25-013953
Chunk: 81

Company: 22nd Century Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-06
Form: PRER14A
Chunk 81
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4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and/or 9 described in this proxy statement at the Annual Meeting. If our stockholders approve this proposal, we could adjourn the Annual Meeting to solicit additional proxies and/or to seek to convince stockholders to change their votes in favor of such proposals.

If it is necessary or advisable to adjourn the Annual Meeting, no notice of any adjournment of less than thirty (30) days is required to be given if the time and place of the adjourned meeting, and the means of remote communication, if any, by which stockholders and proxyholders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such adjourned meeting, are announced at the meeting at which adjournment is taken, unless after the adjournment a new record 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.

<div align='center'>Our Board of Directors recommends that the stockholders vote “FOR” the adjournment of the meeting, if necessary or advisable, to solicit additional proxies.</div>

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<div align='center'>BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP</div>

The following table sets forth information regarding the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of May 16, 2025, by

| (i) | each                                                                 
 person who, to our knowledge, owns more than 5% of our common stock, |

| (ii) | each                                                                    
 of our current directors, director nominees and executive officers, and |

| (iii) | all                                                                         
 our current directors, director nominees and executive officers as a group. |

To our knowledge, no person owns more than 5% of our common stock. Derivative securities exercisable or convertible into shares of our common stock within sixty (60) days of May 16, 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%