Patent Estate

We have an extensive intellectual property portfolio of issued patents and patent applications relating to the tobacco and cannabis plants.

22nd Century Group, Inc. (NYSE MKT: XXII) owns or controls the genes in the tobacco plant needed to regulate and control nicotine, the addictive drug in tobacco. 22nd Century enjoys the exclusive ability to produce Very Low Nicotine (VLN) tobacco for commercial cigarettes being sold to consumers (MAGIC), research cigarettes being sold to the U.S. Federal Government Agencies (SPECTRUM), and the world’s only botanical smoking cessation product (X-22).