17. Commitments, contingencies, and other matters: Operating leases: The Company leases a warehouse and manufacturing facility that was used for manufacturing of its dissolvable tobacco products through December 31, 2012. The cost for this lease, which expires in 2022, is approximately $7 thousand per month. Because the lease is non-cancellable, the Company is obligated to continue the lease payments through the lease term. In 2013, the Company entered into a one year sublease renewable annually for eight years for a portion of this property for $ 2,000 per month. This sublease is currently in default. On October 1, 2014, the Company entered in a separate sublease with an unrelated entity for a period of two years, , automatically renewable for 5 one periods and one six month period for a monthly rate of $ 4,000 per month. The sublease will expire no later than March 31, 2022 . The Company closed its offices in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Washington DC and Glen Allen, VA in 2014. The offices in Gloucester, Massachusetts and Washington DC closed at the end of their respective leases. The Glen Allen, VA office closed December 31, 2014 however had six months remaining on the lease, however, the Company signed an early termination agreement effect March 1, 2014. The agreement required the Company to pay rent of approximately $ 4,000 per month for January 2014 and February 2014. In 2014 the Company entered into a lease agreement with the Roskamp Institute to lease an area of their building for the Company s Corporate Offices. The Company paid to build out the space into its offices. Subsequent to the lease execution an addendum to the lease was executed for additional storage space under the same terms and conditions of the original lease. The initial lease term is two years with options to renew annually for up to four twelve month periods by the Company. After the initial twenty four months of the lease, if the lease is not renewed for an annual term the lease will be month to month cancellable by either party with 3