Yes, you can smoke at Buenos Aires Aeroparque Jorge Newbery (AEP) outdoors, on the open-air landside forecourt in front of the single terminal. AEP is the city’s close-in riverside airport, sitting on the Río de la Plata waterfront a few minutes from downtown Buenos Aires, and one of Argentina’s busiest, handling around 17 million passengers a year through one recently renovated terminal that serves domestic, regional, and a handful of international routes. The building is smoke-free inside under Argentina’s national tobacco law, so smoking happens in the marked open-air area on the landside, in front of the terminal.
Where You Can Smoke at Aeroparque
Smoking at AEP is an outdoor, landside option. The renovated terminal has no indoor smoking room and no airside smoking area, so the place to light up is outside the building in the open air, on the kerbside and forecourt that run along the front of the terminal facing the access roads and the river.
The terminal is arranged over two levels — an upper departures level and a lower arrivals level — and both open out to this landside forecourt, so wherever you arrive you can step outside and smoke before or after your business inside. Because the airport is right on the waterfront, the outdoor kerbside is breezy and open. Smoke in the marked outdoor spots away from the doors, then head back in; the automatic doors and the whole concourse are smoke-free.
After Security and the AMAE Lounge
There is no smoking once you pass the security checkpoint. The airside concourse, the gates, and the restrooms are all smoke-free, and the AMAE Lounge in the main terminal is a non-smoking lounge with no dedicated smoking room or terrace. Departing passengers should finish their cigarette on the outdoor forecourt before clearing security, because there is no way to smoke again until you land.
Connecting passengers who want to smoke face the same setup: exit the terminal to the open-air landside forecourt, smoke there, and then re-clear security and any document checks before returning to the gate. On a short domestic turnaround it is often simpler to skip the smoke break than to re-enter the queue.
Vaping at AEP
Vaping is allowed in the same outdoor landside area as smoking. Argentina classifies e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn products as tobacco, so indoor vaping is treated exactly like a cigarette and is not permitted anywhere inside the terminal. Use vapes on the open-air forecourt outside the building.
Summary
| Area | Smoking allowed? |
|---|---|
| Indoors (terminal, both levels) | No |
| After security (airside) | No |
| AMAE Lounge | No |
| Outside terminal (open-air forecourt) | Yes |
For Argentina’s airport smoking rules and vaping law, see our Argentina airport smoking guide.