22nd Century Group Inc.

22nd Century Group Inc is a US-based plant biotechnology company. It focuses on developing technology which allows the increase or decrease in the level of nicotine and other nicotinic alkaloids in tobacco plants and levels of cannabinoids in cannabis plants through genetic engineering and plant breeding. The company is engaged in the research and development of potentially less harmful or modified risk tobacco products and novel tobacco plant varieties. Other business activities of the company include manufacture, marketing, sales and distribution of RED SUN and MAGIC proprietary cigarettes, contract manufacturing of third-party branded tobacco products, research and development of plant varieties of hemp/cannabis, the sale of branded proprietary tobaccos and among others.