--- title: "Italy Airport Smoking Areas" canonical: "https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/" language: "en-us" description: "Smoke after security at Italian airports in the boxes at Malpensa and Linate, the areas at Bergamo and the room at Venice; Naples and Bologna list none." lastmod: "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z" --- # Italy Airport Smoking Areas Yes, many Italian airports keep a smoking area after security: Rome Fiumicino’s enclosed booths, the smoking boxes at Milan Malpensa and Milan Linate, Milan Bergamo’s four areas, the rooms at Venice and Bari, Lamezia Terme’s area by the stairs after security, the Prima Vista Lounge’s smoking area at Cagliari for €10, Olbia’s open-air garden and the terraces at Turin and Verona. Palermo’s 2025 charter lists an area opposite gate 15 after security and its April 2026 rules allow smoking only in the signed areas outside the terminal, so ask staff. Naples, Bologna, Brindisi, Treviso and Rome Ciampino list no smoking area, Florence’s airport rules name none, Pisa allows smoking outside its terminal before security and lists none after it, Catania’s areas are outside Terminals A and C before security and Olbia keeps two delimited spaces outside arrivals and departures; ask staff at each for the nearest place to smoke, and if there is none, smoke outside the airport property, beyond the terminal kerb and car parks. ## Italy Airports Compared: Before and After Security Before security, you can always smoke outside: at a designated smoking area where there is one, or outside the airport property, beyond the terminal kerb and car parks. After security, Yes means there is a smoking area past security and a dash means none is listed. Each airport’s page has the details. | Airport | Before security | After security | | --- | --- | --- | | [Bari (BRI)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/bri-smoking-at-bari-airport/) | Yes | Yes | | [Bologna (BLQ)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/blq-smoking-at-bologna-airport/) | Yes | – | | [Brindisi (BDS)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/bds-smoking-at-brindisi-airport/) | Yes | – | | [Cagliari (CAG)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/cag-smoking-at-cagliari-airport/) | Yes | Yes | | [Catania (CTA)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/cta-smoking-at-catania-airport/) | Yes | – | | [Florence (FLR)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/flr-smoking-at-florence-airport/) | Yes | – | | [Lamezia Terme (SUF)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/suf-smoking-at-lamezia-terme-airport/) | Yes | Yes | | [Milan Bergamo (BGY)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/bgy-smoking-at-milan-bergamo-airport/) | Yes | Yes | | [Milan Linate (LIN)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/lin-smoking-at-milan-linate-airport/) | Yes | Yes | | [Milan Malpensa (MXP)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/mxp-smoking-at-milan-airport/) | Yes | Yes | | [Naples (NAP)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/nap-smoking-at-naples-airport/) | Yes | – | | [Olbia (OLB)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/olb-smoking-at-olbia-airport/) | Yes | Yes | | [Palermo (PMO)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/pmo-smoking-at-palermo-airport/) | Yes | Yes | | [Pisa (PSA)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/psa-smoking-at-pisa-airport/) | Yes | – | | [Rome Ciampino (CIA)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/cia-smoking-at-rome-ciampino-airport/) | Yes | – | | [Rome Fiumicino (FCO)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/fco-smoking-at-rome-airport/) | Yes | Yes | | [Treviso (TSF)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/tsf-smoking-at-treviso-airport/) | Yes | – | | [Turin (TRN)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/trn-smoking-at-turin-airport/) | Yes | Yes | | [Venice (VCE)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/vce-smoking-at-venice-airport/) | Yes | Yes | | [Verona (VRN)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/vrn-smoking-at-verona-airport/) | Yes | Yes | Italian law bans smoking in enclosed premises open to the public, airport terminals included, and lets an operator set aside a marked room for smokers with working ventilation; the detail is below. ## Smoking Regulations at Italian Airports Legge 16 gennaio 2003, n. 3, article 51, bans smoking in enclosed premises open to the public and allows rooms reserved for smokers, marked as such, with ventilation and air-exchange systems in working order; an airport may keep one, and none has to. The room’s conditions are in the Decreto del Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri of 23 December 2003: full-height walls on all four sides, a self-closing door kept shut, no through route for non-smokers, forced ventilation of at least 30 litres of fresh air a second for each person it can hold, negative pressure of at least 5 Pa, no recirculation of the air, and a lit sign reading AREA PER FUMATORI that switches to a no-smoking warning when the ventilation fails; a room that fails any condition is not a smoking room in law. The fine for smoking where it is banned is €27.50 to €275, doubled to €55 to €550 in the presence of a visibly pregnant woman, an infant or a child up to twelve; the person responsible for the premises who lets it happen faces €220 to €2,200, raised by half where the room’s ventilation is not kept working (Legge 11 novembre 1975, n. 584, article 7, as amended, applied by article 51(5)). The national law bans smoking outdoors only on the grounds of schools, hospitals and paediatric institutes, and in cars carrying a person under eighteen or a pregnant woman; it names no airport forecourt or car park, and each airport sets its own rule for the ground outside its terminal. The city of Milan bans smoking in public open-air places from 1 January 2025 unless you keep ten metres from other people (Regolamento per la qualità dell’aria, article 9), a rule for tobacco that does not cover e-cigarettes; it does not reach Malpensa, in Ferno and Somma Lombardo, or Bergamo, in Orio al Serio, and part of Linate’s grounds lies inside the city. E-cigarettes and heated tobacco are under the vaping question above: the national law extends the airport smoking ban to neither, and the airport’s own rule decides. ## How Italian Airport Smoking Works - After security, where an airport keeps one: enclosed booths (Fiumicino), smoking boxes (Malpensa, Linate), areas the airport maps without describing their form (Bergamo, Lamezia Terme), rooms (Venice, Bari), a lounge smoking area with its own ticket (Cagliari), an open-air garden (Olbia) or terraces (Turin, Verona) - Before security: Pisa’s rules allow smoking outside its terminal, Palermo and Cagliari sign outdoor areas beside theirs, Catania’s are outside Terminals A and C, Olbia keeps two delimited spaces outside arrivals and departures; the other airports in this guide list no outdoor area, so ask staff, and if there is none, smoke outside the airport property, beyond the terminal kerb and car parks - The airports in this guide publish no hours for their smoking areas (Cagliari’s lounge publishes its own hours), so ask staff if one is closed - Inside the terminals, smoking is banned everywhere outside those rooms, boxes and areas ## The Major Hubs **[Rome Fiumicino (FCO)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/fco-smoking-at-rome-airport/).** Rome’s main airport, named after Leonardo da Vinci. Passenger flights run through two operating terminals: Terminal 1 (boarding areas A1–A3, A21–A27, A31–A52 and A61–A83) and Terminal 3 (boarding areas E1–E8, E11–E24, E31–E44 and E51–E61). ADR lists smoking areas after security in both: in Terminal 1 near gates A02, A05, A21, A31, A47–A49, A50, A62, A71 and A75 and in the upper-level restaurant area; in Terminal 3 near gates E14 and E38, in boarding area E51–E52 and in the upper-level restaurant area. Travellers described them as enclosed booths; the terminals connect after security; outdoor areas before security. **[Milan Malpensa (MXP)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/mxp-smoking-at-milan-airport/).** Milan’s main international airport. Seven smoking boxes on the airport’s maps, all after security: four on the first floor of Terminal 1, in the B gate satellite, the A and B gate satellite, at the far end of the A gates and in the B gate area, one on the ground floor of Terminal 1 in the B gate area, and two on the first floor of Terminal 2, by gate 8 and by gates 12 to 15\. The Montale lounge in Terminal 1 lists a smoking area for its guests. No smoking area is marked outside either terminal. **[Milan Linate (LIN)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/lin-smoking-at-milan-linate-airport/).** Milan’s city airport. A smoking area on the airport’s map after security, on the ground floor of the gate concourse at the entrance to the pier for gates A9 to A16; a second box on the second floor beside the Leonardo lounge, which the airport does not say is open to all; the Leonardo lounge’s own smoking area by gates A17 and A18. No smoking area is marked outside, and part of the airport’s grounds lies in the city of Milan with its open-air rule. **[Milan Bergamo (BGY)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/bgy-smoking-at-milan-bergamo-airport/).** Milan’s low-cost base at Orio al Serio. Four smoking areas on the airport’s map of January 2026, all after security: on the A pier between gates A2 and A3, below gates A12 and A13, the area beside the Sala Amica assistance lounge, which the airport calls a smoking room, and in the non-Schengen area beside the Workeat restaurant. No smoking area is marked outside. ## Other Major Airports **[Naples (NAP)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/nap-smoking-at-naples-airport/).** Closed for runway works in November 2026; the operator’s notices put flights at Salerno Costa d’Amalfi from 1 to 30 November and announce new bus links between the two. When open, the airport allows smoking only at its signed smoking points and lists none; Rene, a reader, found smoking outside the terminal fine and no possibility inside on 11 July 2026\. Ask staff. **[Venice Marco Polo (VCE)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/vce-smoking-at-venice-airport/).** A smoking room after security on the second floor of the terminal, by the Relay bookshop and the Doppio Malto restaurant, before the passport control for non-Schengen flights; a reader could not get back to it after passport control on 5 October 2026\. No smoking area is marked outside. **[Catania Fontanarossa (CTA)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/cta-smoking-at-catania-airport/).** Sicily’s busiest airport. Outdoor areas outside the Terminal A and Terminal C entrances, before security; SAC lists no smoking area after security, so ask staff. **[Palermo Falcone Borsellino (PMO)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/pmo-smoking-at-palermo-airport/).** Signed outdoor smoking areas beside the terminal before security, the only places the airport’s April 2026 rules allow; its 2025 charter lists a smoking area after security on the third level opposite gate 15; a reader described the airport’s smoking area as very small and smoky on 29 August 2026 without saying which one, so ask staff whether it is open. **[Bologna Marconi (BLQ)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/blq-smoking-at-bologna-airport/).** The airport lists no smoking area after security and allows none inside the terminal; it placed its smoking area outside the terminal in 2015 and lists no position today. Ask staff. **[Lamezia Terme (SUF)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/suf-smoking-at-lamezia-terme-airport/).** A smoking area in the departure zone immediately after security, on the main floor by the stairs near gate 6, which the airport’s 2026 guide says it renovated recently; the airport does not say whether it is enclosed. No outdoor area is listed. **[Brindisi Salento (BDS)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/bds-smoking-at-brindisi-airport/).** Run by Aeroporti di Puglia alongside Bari. The airport lists no smoking area, inside or outside the terminal. Ask staff. **[Treviso Antonio Canova (TSF)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/tsf-smoking-at-treviso-airport/).** A separate airport from Venice Marco Polo. The airport publishes no smoking area, inside or after security; smoke outside the terminal building before security and ask staff for the nearest place. **[Turin (TRN)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/trn-smoking-at-turin-airport/).** Piedmont’s main gateway, officially Sandro Pertini Airport. Open-air smoking terrace airside on the upper level of the departures area, near the Kids Area; before security, ask staff for the nearest place outside the terminal. **[Olbia Costa Smeralda (OLB)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/olb-smoking-at-olbia-airport/).** Gateway to Sardinia’s northeast coast, named Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport H.H. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV since 2026\. A small open-air Smoking Garden airside, beyond security in the departures pier; before security, two delimited smoking spaces outside the terminal, in the arrivals area and the departures area. **[Verona Villafranca (VRN)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/vrn-smoking-at-verona-airport/).** Also known as Catullo Airport, gateway to Lake Garda. An outdoor smoking terrace on the first floor after security, which the airport opened to passengers in April 2026 and marks on its map as an outdoor smoking area; it publishes no gate number for it, so ask staff. Before security, the airport publishes no smoking area, so ask staff for the nearest place outside the terminal. **[Rome Ciampino (CIA)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/cia-smoking-at-rome-ciampino-airport/).** Rome’s second airport, run by the same operator as Fiumicino. ADR’s services list names no smoking area after security and its airport regulations provide for marked airside smoking points without placing them, so ask staff once through; before security, ask staff for the nearest place outside the single terminal. ADR’s regulations prohibit e-cigarettes wherever smoking is prohibited. **[Bari Karol Wojtyła (BRI)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/bri-smoking-at-bari-airport/).** Puglia’s main gateway. A smoking room of about 19 m² in the boarding area after security, placed on the first floor beside stair B near gate A4 on the airport’s 2020 plan; ask staff for the way and whether it is open. No outdoor area is listed. **[Pisa Galileo Galilei (PSA)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/psa-smoking-at-pisa-airport/).** Tuscany’s busiest airport. The airport’s rules allow smoking outside the terminal before security and, after security, only in an area set aside outside the terminal where one is provided; it lists none, and a reader found none after security on 12 September 2026\. **[Cagliari Elmas (CAG)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/cag-smoking-at-cagliari-airport/).** Sardinia’s main gateway. Signed smoking areas outside the terminal at arrivals and departures with the Smokers Point ashtrays of May 2025; after security, the Prima Vista Lounge’s smoking area on the second floor, €10 for the smoking area alone; the lounge is open 05:30 to 21:00 and publishes no separate hours for the smoking area. **[Florence Peretola (FLR)](https://www.airportsmokingzones.com/italy/flr-smoking-at-florence-airport/).** Tuscan capital airport, smaller than Pisa. The airport’s rules of January 2025 name no smoking area, inside or outside the terminal. Ask staff. ## Tips for Smokers at Italian Airports - Fiumicino, Malpensa, Linate, Bergamo, Venice, Bari, Lamezia Terme, Cagliari (in the lounge), Olbia, Turin and Verona keep a smoking area after security; at Palermo ask staff; Naples, Bologna, Brindisi, Treviso, Ciampino, Catania and Pisa list none after security and Florence’s rules name none - The airports in this guide publish no hours for their smoking areas (Cagliari’s lounge publishes its own); ask staff if one is closed - Pisa and Palermo treat electronic cigarettes as smoking inside their terminals and Ciampino’s regulations prohibit them wherever smoking is prohibited; the other airports publish no vaping rule, so ask staff - At Venice, smoke before passport control on a non-Schengen flight; the room is on the other side ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Can you smoke at Italian airports? Yes — where an airport sets a room or area aside. After security: Rome Fiumicino’s booths, the smoking boxes at Milan Malpensa and Milan Linate, Milan Bergamo’s four areas, the rooms at Venice and Bari, Lamezia Terme’s area, the Prima Vista Lounge’s smoking area at Cagliari (€10), Olbia’s garden and the terraces at Turin and Verona; Palermo’s charter lists an area opposite gate 15 and its rules allow smoking only outside, so ask staff. Before security: Pisa allows smoking outside the terminal, Palermo and Cagliari sign outdoor areas, Catania has areas outside Terminals A and C and Olbia keeps two delimited spaces outside arrivals and departures. Naples (closed for runway works in November 2026, with flights at Salerno from 1 to 30 November), Bologna, Brindisi, Treviso and Ciampino list no smoking area and Florence’s airport rules name none, so ask staff there. Italian law bans smoking in enclosed premises open to the public and allows marked, ventilated smoking rooms (Legge 16 gennaio 2003, n. 3, article 51). ### Where can I smoke at Rome Fiumicino (FCO)? After security, in the smoking areas ADR lists in both terminals: in Terminal 1 by boarding areas A1–A10 (near gates A02 and A05), A21–A27 (near gate A21), A31–A59 (near gates A31 and A50 and between gates A47 and A49), A61–A73 (near gates A62 and A71) and A74–A83 (near gate A75) and in the upper-level restaurant area of departures; in Terminal 3 by boarding areas E11–E24 (near gate E14), E31–E44 (near gate E38) and E51–E52 and in the upper-level restaurant area of departures. Travellers described them as enclosed booths. The two terminals connect after security; before security, smoke in the open air outside the terminals. ### Where can I smoke at Milan Malpensa (MXP)? In the smoking boxes the airport’s maps mark after security: in Terminal 1, three on the first floor (in the B gate satellite, the A and B gate satellite and at the far end of the A gates), a fourth first-floor box in the B gate area and one on the ground floor in the B gate area; in Terminal 2, two on the first floor, by gate 8 and by gates 12 to 15\. The airport marks no smoking area outside either terminal, so ask staff there. ### Are e-cigarettes and vapes allowed at Italian airports? Only where an airport allows them. Italian law bans e-cigarette use on school premises (Decreto-legge 12 settembre 2013, n. 104, article 4), not in airport terminals; the indoor smoking ban of Legge 16 gennaio 2003, n. 3, article 51, is written for smoking and names e-cigarettes only in its advertising clauses, and a heated-tobacco product consumed without combustion is classed as a non-smoking tobacco product (Decreto legislativo 12 gennaio 2016, n. 6, article 2). Each airport sets its own rule: Pisa and Palermo treat electronic cigarettes as smoking inside their terminals and Ciampino’s regulations prohibit them wherever smoking is prohibited; the other airports in this guide publish no rule, so ask staff. Milan’s open-air smoking ban does not cover e-cigarettes. ### Can I smoke during an Italian airport layover? Yes — without leaving the secure area at Rome Fiumicino, Milan Malpensa, Milan Linate, Milan Bergamo, Venice (before passport control for non-Schengen flights), Bari, Lamezia Terme, Cagliari (in the Prima Vista Lounge, €10), Olbia, Turin and Verona; ask staff at Palermo, whose charter lists an area after security and whose rules allow smoking only outside. Naples, Bologna, Brindisi, Treviso, Ciampino, Catania and Pisa list no smoking area after security and Florence’s airport rules name none; a layover smoke there means leaving the secure area and clearing security again, so ask staff first.