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22nd Century Group, Inc. is a tobacco products company that enables cigarette smokers to take control of their consumption of nicotine, the addictive drug in cigarettes. The Company manufactures and distributes combustible tobacco products containing minimally or non-addictive levels of nicotine. Additionally, the Company provides turnkey contract manufacturing of cigarettes and filtered cigars for other established tobacco brands. The Company's product, VLN cigarette has 95% less nicotine than the traditional cigarette. The Company operates through a single segment named Tobacco. It is engaged in contract manufacturing organization (CMO) customer contracts that consist of obligations to manufacture the customers' branded filtered cigars and cigarettes. It is also engaged in the sale of its proprietary low nicotine content cigarettes, sold under the brand name VLN, or research cigarettes sold under the brand name SPECTRUM.