22nd Century Group Inc (XXII)

[nonameface13]

So was I. More importantly, more press:

Gentlemen, $XXII... there's no one else... all clinical trials have used their tobacco... I'm excited... I put in a lot of cash and averaged out to 2.50 range, unfortunately, but who the hell cares when you've got a near-term $10 stock:

1.
http://www.journalnow.com/business/business_news/local/e-cig-risk-campaign-for-youths-draws-praise-criticism-to/article_d3e2a811-9ca8-5d7e-ba4b-81da4b174837.html
“Nicotine rewires brain areas associated with mood, causing predisposition to mood disorders in the future,” Spangler said. “Nicotine also affects the heart among adolescents, predisposing them to cardiac disorders, and nicotine can affect a youth’s immune system.

“Ideally, it would be best if no young person were exposed to nicotine because of its adverse brain development,” he said.

2.
New cigarettes to hit UK? 'Desperate' plan would make working Brits 'suffer most' http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/636839/Smoking-crackdown-cigarette-government-UK-laws-changes-nicotine

3.
https://www.drugaddictionnow.com/2017/08/10/fda-to-cut-down-nicotine-in-cigarettes-to-non-addictive-levels/2/
"The FDA is expected to release guidelines describing how the new policies will be enforced shortly."

4.
http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/editorial-the-fdas-sensible-approach-to-a-dangerous-addiction
There is something to that argument. Cigarette smoking is the nation's leading cause of preventable disease and death, killing more than 480,000 Americans annually, with treatment of related illnesses costing more than $300 billion per year, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But Gottlieb's comprehensive approach has support in the health community, and appears to be the right approach.
"The big picture here is that cigarettes as we know them could be phased out and e-cigarettes could be a bridge for people to not use cigarettes," Josh Sharfstein, a deputy FDA commissioner in the Obama administration and now a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told The Washington Post.

5.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/how-big-tobacco-is-going-after-the-young-in-developing-countries-like-india-117081100235_1.html
Market research for John Player & Sons and Imperial Tobacco, for example, found that: “The maintenance and stability of the cigarette market depend in large measure on the constant recruitment of youth (age 15–23, roughly) to the cigarette smoking habit.”