Virtual Reality Teaches Middle Schoolers About Nicotine

Virtual Reality Teaches Middle Schoolers About Nicotine

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Caffeinated Bees, Vape Prevention VR, Blue Collar Cash

Episode: Caffeinated Bees, Vape Prevention VR, Blue Collar Cash

  • Feb 22, 2022 10:00 am
  • 16:09 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)