---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001641172-25-019708"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XXII"
cik: "0001347858"
company_name: "22nd Century Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-07-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T06:27:35.766543+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# 22nd Century shareholders approve doubling authorized shares and reverse split authorization

## Summary
- Shareholders approved doubling authorized common shares from 250M to 500M.
- Approved reverse stock split range 1:2 to 1:100 at Board discretion for Nasdaq compliance.
- Approved 5M additional shares for the 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan.
- Approved issuance of shares upon exercise of warrants dated Oct 2024 and May 2025.
- Say-on-pay passed; directors Firestone and Keys re-elected; Freed Maxick CPAs ratified.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001641172-25-019708
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XXII
- cik: 0001347858
- company_name: 22nd Century Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-07-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1347858/000164117225019708/0001641172-25-019708-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1347858/000164117225019708/form8-k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  22nd Century Group, Inc.: Approved amendment to Articles of Incorporation to increase authorized common shares from 250 million to 500 million (effective 2025-07-15).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-07-15
  source text: the stockholders of the Company approved an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation, as amended, to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock from two hundred fifty million (250,000,000) to five hundred million (500,000,000)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1347858/000164117225019708/0001641172-25-019708-index.htm

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