Updated June 28, 2023
The smoking lounge of an airport is a designated space that allows legal age (18 years old and above) smokers and users of vapes or heated tobacco to enjoy their cigarettes or smoke-free alternatives. The rules around smoking lounges will vary per airport, and that’s because every airport is different. Also, note that the legal age for smoking and using smoke-free alternatives will vary depending on the country or jurisdiction where the airport is located.
Whether you’re booking a flight to go on holiday, a work trip or something else entirely, it is useful to know the rules within each airport.
Some airports offer a space for legal age users to smoke or use smoke-free alternatives. If you want to use the smoking lounge, or an external smoking area, try searching for one. You can check with the airport administration who will be able to help.
Where Can I Find an Airport Smoking Lounge?
The location of a smoking lounge, or smoking room, varies from airport to airport. Generally speaking, international airports do not allow indoor smoking, and designated smoking areas can usually be found outside of the facilities. It is important to consider that you usually cannot smoke once you have passed security control.
Smoking lounges are becoming increasingly rare as airports adopt no smoking policies. However, some airports do offer smoke-free lounges for those legal age users of heated tobacco products or vapes.
If the airport does not include a smoking lounge, you can try looking for an alternative outside area – such as a patio – or ask the airport staff who will be able to help you. Never light up a cigarette or use a smoke-free alternative in an area where it is not permitted. Airports have strict policies for a reason, so only use a tobacco heating or vape device in a space where they are permitted. Lounges permitting the use of smoke-free alternatives are available in a handful of airports around the world.
Can I Vape in an Airport Smoking Lounge?
As with rules about the use of cigarettes, those for smoke-free alternatives vary between airports. Usage of vapes and other smoke-free alternatives is always prohibited by airports, unless there is an airport smoking lounge. These smoking lounges are only for legal age (18 and above) users of heated tobacco products or vapes. Vapes are banned by most airlines and you cannot vape on a plane – the same is true for heated tobacco. Tobacco heating systems will heat tobacco instead of burning it. Checkout available IQOS heated tobacco range online.
Our very own IQOS lounges, found in some airports around the world, have been designed with legal age IQOS users in mind – they offer comfort for adult users looking for a place to enjoy IQOS. Our lounges permit the use of IQOS products and are a suitable place to enjoy tobacco before a flight. In the Philippines, legal age (18 years old and above) IQOS users can experience tobacco moments with IQOS products in our airport lounges at Mactan-Cebu Airport Terminals 1 and 2, and at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 2 [Temporarily Closed] and NAIA Terminal 3.
But what does a lounge like the IQOS Lounge in the Cebu Mactan Airport offer? You can enjoy tobacco experiences before you fly out, purchase devices and tobacco sticks, and avail of IQOS services. There is also an IQOS Lounge at the NAIA Terminal 3, which is accessible to International passengers.
