Cyprus Airport Smoking Areas

Cyprus’s main international gateway is Larnaca International Airport (LCA), on the island’s southeast coast, and it is a comparatively smoker-friendly airport: it keeps a designated ventilated smoking room airside, past passport control. That makes a Larnaca layover easier than at the many European hubs where smoking is outdoor-only.

For international travel through Cyprus, Larnaca (LCA) is the airport that matters, handling the bulk of the island’s traffic; the smaller western gateway, Paphos International Airport (PFO), is smoke-free indoors with an outdoor smoking area landside.

The island’s third airport, Ercan International Airport (ECN), lies in the Turkish-Cypriot-administered north of Cyprus and follows its own tobacco law, separate from the Republic of Cyprus law below. Smoking at Ercan is outdoors, landside, with no smoking facility listed after security.

How Cyprus Airport Smoking Works

Cyprus’s Protection of Health (Control of Smoking) Law bans smoking in enclosed public spaces, including airport terminals — the check-in halls, concourses and gate areas are smoke-free — and permits separately-ventilated smoking rooms:

• Ventilated smoking room airside at Larnaca, past passport control, near the Burger King and Costa Coffee outlets
• Landside smoking is outdoors outside the terminal entrances at every Cyprus airport, including Paphos (PFO), where the law permits smoking in the open air
• The general terminal, check-in halls and gate areas are smoke-free
• E-cigarettes are treated like tobacco — not in the open terminal; use the designated points

The Hub

Larnaca International Airport (LCA). Cyprus’s largest airport, operated by Hermes Airports, handling around 8 million passengers a year through a single modern terminal. Larnaca’s smoking room sits airside in the transit area behind the Burger King and Costa Coffee units — an enclosed, ventilated room with upgraded extraction — with additional marked outdoor areas outside the terminal for arrivals and pre-security smoking.

Tips for Smokers at Cyprus Airports

• Larnaca keeps an airside smoking room past passport control — you can smoke during a layover without exiting security
• The room sits behind the Burger King and Costa Coffee food units; travellers place the entrance to the far left
• E-cigarettes follow the same indoor ban as tobacco — use the designated points
• Smoke landside at the marked outdoor areas outside the terminal entrances
• At Paphos (PFO), the smaller western gateway, smoking is landside-only; the airport lists no airside facility

Cyprus Airports Compared: Indoor, Outdoor & After Security