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Highlights:

• East, K., Simonavičius, E., Taylor, E.V., Brose, L., Robson, D., McNeill, A. (2025). Interventions to change vaping harm perceptions and associations between harm perceptions and vaping and smoking behaviours: A systematic review. Addiction. DOI: 10.1111/add.70129.

• East, K., Taylor, E., McNeill, A., Bakolis, I., Taylor, A., Maynard, O., Munafò, M. R., Khouja, J. (2025). Perceived Harm of Vaping Relative to Smoking and Associations With Subsequent Smoking and Vaping Behaviors Among Young Adults: Evidence From a UK Cohort Study. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntaf018.

• East, K., Taylor, E. V., McNeill, A., Gravely, S., Bunce, L., Cheeseman, H. (2025). Banning cigarette filters in the United Kingdom: Time to correct misperceptions of harms. Addiction. DOI: 10.1111/add.70200.

• Alharbi, M., Ward, E., Notley, C., Dockrell, M., Taylor, E., East, K. (2025) Evaluating the impact of vaping facts films on vaping harm perceptions among young adults in the UK: A randomized on-line experiment. Addiction. DOI: 10.1111/add.70119.

• East, K., Taylor, E. V., Simonavičius, E., Nottage, M., Reid, J. L., Burkhalter, R., Brose, L., Wackowski, O., Liber, A., McNeill, A., Hammond, D. (2024). Noticing education campaigns or public health messages about vaping among youth in the United States, Canada and England from 2018 to 2022. Health Education Research, cyad044. DOI: 10.1093/her/cyad044.

• Taylor, E., Arnott, D., Cheeseman, H., Hammond, D., Reid, J. L., McNeill, A., Driezen, P., East, K. (2023). Association of Fully Branded and Standardized e-Cigarette Packaging With Interest in Trying Products Among Youths and Adults in Great Britain. JAMA Network Open, 6(3), e231799-e231799. DOI: doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.1799. Link.

• East, K., Reid, J. L., Burkhalter, R., Kock, L., Hyland, A., Fong, G. T., Hammond, D. (2022) Menthol cigarette smoking among youth in England, Canada, and the US, 2018-2020: Evaluating the impact of the menthol cigarette ban in England. JAMA Network Open. DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.10029. Link.

• East, K., Miller, C. R., Hitchman, S. C., McNeill, A., & Tompkins, C. N. E. T. (2022) ‘It’s not what you’d term normal smoking’: A qualitative exploration of language used to describe Heated Tobacco Product (HTP) use and associated user identity. Addiction. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/add.16051. Link.

• D’Mello, K., Hammond, D., Mahamad, S., Wiggers, W., & East, K. (2022). Nicotine content, labelling, and flavours of e-cigarettes in Canada: a scan of the online retail market. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 42(1): 4-11 DOI: 10.24095/hpcdp.42.1.02. Link.

• East, K., Hitchman, S. C., McNeill, A., Ferguson, S., Yong, H. H., Cummings, M. K., Fong, G. T., & Borland, R. (2021). Trends in social norms towards smoking between 2002 and 2015 among daily smokers: Findings from the International Tobacco Control Four Country Survey (ITC 4C). Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 23 (1), 203-211. DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntz179. Link.

• East, K., Hitchman, S. C., Bakolis, I., Williams, S., Cheeseman, H., Arnott, D., & McNeill, A. (2018). The association between smoking and electronic cigarette use in a cohort of young people. Journal of Adolescent Health, 62(5), 539-547. DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.11.301. Link.