Vape Prevention

Vape Prevention

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Condo Safety, Scamdemic, Autism Self-Advocates

Episode: Condo Safety, Scamdemic, Autism Self-Advocates

  • Aug 5, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 16:56 mins

High school kids are fours time as likely to smoke e-cigarettes as they were just a few years ago. Fortunately, some researchers at Yale have developed a way middle schoolers can practice navigating peer pressure in high school: virtual reality. Kimberly Hieftje is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale Medicine and director of the play4REAL XR lab that developed the vaping prevention game. (Segment produced by Abby Haralson)