Company: XXII
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001641172-25-014543
Chunk: 81

Company: 22nd Century Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 81
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center'>Our Board of Directors recommends that the stockholders vote “FOR” the proposal
to ratify the selection of Freed as our independent registered public accountants
for the year ending December 31, 2025.</div>

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<div align='center'>PROPOSAL NO.11

THE ADJOURNMENT OF THE MEETING, IF NECESSARY OR ADVISABLE, TO SOLICIT ADDITIONAL PROXIES</div>

We are asking our stockholders to authorize us to adjourn the Annual Meeting to another time and place, if necessary or advisable, to solicit additional proxies in the event there are not sufficient votes to approve Proposals 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 June 1, 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