Brunei International Airport (BWN) has no smoking area — the terminal, its lounges, the airside departure pier and the airport’s outdoor grounds, kerb and drop-off included, all fall under Brunei’s smoking ban — so have your last cigarette before you set out for the airport, at least 6 metres from any building and away from bus and taxi stops.
Brunei International Airport, in the capital Bandar Seri Begawan, is the country’s sole airport, handling every international and domestic flight through one terminal. Brunei’s smoke-free rules list any airport together with its premises, adjoining land included, so the ban reaches beyond the building.
Inside the Terminal
The terminal is a single building with a shared check-in concourse landside and a compact departures pier airside, and it is smoke-free throughout. There is no indoor smoking room, no ventilated cabin, and no airside terrace. The airside lounges, the Royal Brunei Sky Lounge included, are inside the smoke-free premises too. Once you have cleared immigration and security there is nowhere to smoke, and leaving the terminal does not help, so transit and connecting passengers have no option on site.
Landside and Outdoors
The airport’s outdoor areas are smoke-free too. Brunei’s rules cover an airport’s premises, adjoining land included, so the terminal frontage, the covered kerbside and the drop-off are all part of the smoke-free site; smoking is also banned within 6 metres of any smoke-free building and at bus and taxi stops. The rules are enforced. Plan to smoke before you arrive.
Vaping
The government treats e-cigarettes as imitation tobacco products, which the Tobacco Order bans from import and sale, and the customs list puts vaporisers and e-liquid among restricted imports. Leave vapes at home when you travel through Brunei; the airport publishes no rule for vaping.
Summary
| Location | Smoking Allowed |
|---|---|
| Indoor (terminal) | – |
| After security (airside) | – |
| Outdoor (designated area) | – |
| Outdoor grounds (kerb, drop-off) | – |
For Brunei’s strict tobacco and vaping laws, including fines, see our Brunei airport smoking guide.