Yes, you can smoke at Senai International Airport (JHB) — travellers described a designated smoking room in the departure hall, on the terminal’s first floor, in February 2026, and another traveller described a smoking room at the airport in March 2025 without naming its exact spot. The airport’s own facilities pages do not publish a smoking-area map, so this room is the one to look for once you are inside.
Senai serves Johor Bahru and southern Johor state, just across the causeway from Singapore, and handled around 3.4 million passengers in 2024 through a single compact passenger terminal.
The Departure Hall Smoking Room
Travellers described a designated smoking room in the departure hall, on the first floor, at Senai in February 2026, and another traveller described a smoking room at the airport in March 2025 without naming the exact spot. Neither Senai’s own website nor its published FAQ pages list a smoking facility, so start looking in the departure hall, and ask airline ground staff or the information desk if you cannot spot it once you are inside.
Check-in counters, security screening, immigration and the boarding gates all sit on the terminal’s first floor, and neither traveller says whether the room sits before or after the checkpoint. Ask ground staff for its exact position once you are inside.
Vaping
Vaping follows the same rule as smoking at Senai: Malaysia’s Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Act 2024 (Act 852) treats e-cigarettes the same as cigarettes, so vapes belong in the departure-hall smoking room and nowhere else in the terminal.
Summary
| Area | Smoking | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Departure hall (first floor) | Yes | Smoking room described by travellers in Feb 2026 and Mar 2025; before/after security not stated |
| Outdoor forecourt | – | No designated outdoor smoking area listed or described |
| Vaping | Yes | Same departure-hall smoking room as cigarettes, under Act 852 |
Travellers comparing Johor Bahru with other Malaysian airports can look at the airside smoking room near Gate A6 at Penang International Airport, which sits clearly past security and immigration.
For Malaysia’s airport smoking rules and vaping law, see our Malaysia airport guide.