<p>NoShemps … I don’t think your daughter will find the smoking to be any problem at all. I think Wake’s dorms are some of the cleaner (and better smelling- as in less smoke/sketchy odors) of those I have seen ( I’ve stayed at ones at MIT, Brown, Penn, Georgetown,UVA… etc). </p>
<p>Wake does not advocate tobacco on its campus. I have never been told 'smoke, its cool". I personally have found it A RELIEF to be at Wake compared to my HS. I went to a internationally ranked private High School not in the south where everyone thought you weren’t cool if you didn’t smoke. There is NONE of that at wake. </p>
<pre><code> Have your daughter tick ‘no smokers’ on the roomate box. Do that… and chances are she wont have to see any smokers at wake if she doesn’t want to. If your daughter has medical problems which require her to avoid inhalation of smoke, report them to the school …
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<p>Please don’t color wake as socially irresonsible when your daughter has not even set foot on campus. Please don’t brand all of us as southern tobacco smokers. I have never lived in the south before but no one anywhere has treated me so much as family as they do at Wake.</p>