Yes, you can smoke at Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) after security, in the smoking room the airport lists on the second floor of the terminal, with charging stations, which its map places by the Relay bookshop and the Doppio Malto restaurant. The room is before the passport control for non-Schengen flights: a reader wrote on 5 October 2026 that, having passed passport control, they could not get back to it and that no sign had warned them. The airport publishes no hours for the room and marks no smoking area outside the terminal; ask staff for the nearest place to smoke outside, and if there is none, smoke outside the airport property, beyond the terminal kerb and car parks. Italian law lets a terminal keep a smoking room that meets its ventilation rules (Legge 16 gennaio 2003, n. 3, article 51).
Flying from Venice’s other airport? Treviso Airport lists no smoking area after security.
After security: the second-floor smoking room
The airport lists the smoking room after security on the second floor of the departures area, ventilated and separated from the public areas of the terminal, with charging stations for phones; its map, updated on 28 September 2026, places it by the Relay bookshop and the Doppio Malto restaurant, and no gate is on that floor. The passport control for non-Schengen flights is on the first floor, so smoke before you go through it: a reader wrote on 5 October 2026 that, having passed passport control, they could not get back to the room and that no sign had warned them. The airport closed the room for maintenance on 16 July 2024 and lists it open again; it publishes no hours, so ask staff if it is closed. The Marco Polo Lounge, on the same floor after security and before passport control (05:00 to 22:30), lists no smoking facility.
Before security
The airport’s map marks no smoking area outside the terminal, at departures or arrivals, at the bus and taxi stands or on the walkway to the water-bus pier. Ask staff for the nearest place to smoke outside; if there is none, smoke outside the airport property, beyond the terminal kerb and car parks.
Vaping
The airport publishes no vaping rule for the smoking room or the terminal, so ask staff before you vape; the Italian rule on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco is on our Italy guide below.
Summary
| Area | Smoking | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Second floor, after security, before passport control | Yes | The smoking room on the airport’s map, by the Relay bookshop and Doppio Malto; no hours published, ask staff |
| After passport control, non-Schengen gates | Ask staff | The room is on the other side; a reader could not get back to it on 5 October 2026 |
| Before security, outside the terminal | Ask staff | The map marks no smoking area; outside the airport property if there is none |
| Vaping | Ask staff | The airport publishes no rule |
For Italy’s airport smoking law, fines and the rule on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco, see our Italy airport guide.