22ND CENTURY GROUP, INC. 22nd Century Group, Inc. announced production of the first cartons of VLN® King and VLN® Menthol King Cigarettes destined for retail sale as part of the Company's pilot program. VLN® is the first cigarette in the world that is not designed to create or sustain nicotine addiction. VLN® smokes, smells, and tastes like a conventional cigarette, but uses 22nd Century Group's proprietary tobacco to deliver America's lowest nicotine content cigarette with 95% less nicotine than America's leading brands.
VLN® King and VLN® Menthol King are the only FDA authorized reduced nicotine content combustible cigarettes in the U.S. tobacco products market, estimated at approximately $80 billion in size.
