Yes, you can smoke at Senai International Airport (JHB) — Sleeping in Airports, a passenger-guide site, placed a designated smoking lounge in the departure hall, on the terminal’s first floor, in a guide updated February 2026, and a March 2025 Instagram post separately confirmed a smoking room exists at the airport without naming its exact spot. The airport’s own facilities pages do not publish a smoking-area map, so this reported lounge is the option to look for once you are inside.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 Lounge
Sleeping in Airports, a passenger-guide site, describes “a designated smoking lounge… located in the departure hall (first floor)” at Senai in a guide updated February 2026, and a separate Instagram post from March 2025 confirms a smoking room exists at the airport; it does not name the exact spot. Neither Senai’s own website nor its published FAQ pages list a smoking facility, so treat the departure hall as the place to start looking, 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, so it is not clear from either source whether the lounge sits before or after the checkpoint. Confirm its exact position with ground staff 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 lounge and nowhere else in the terminal.
Summary
| Area | Smoking | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Departure hall (first floor) | Yes | Smoking lounge reported by Sleeping in Airports (Feb 2026) and a Mar 2025 Instagram post; before/after security not confirmed |
| Outdoor forecourt | – | No designated outdoor smoking area confirmed |
| Vaping | Yes | Same departure-hall lounge 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.