Yes, you can smoke at Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport (TNG) — outdoors, landside, before check-in or security, under Morocco’s Law 15-91 (1995), which restricts smoking in certain places and does not reach the open air. A December 2024 traveller review also describes a small smoking cabin near Gate 10 in the departures concourse; nothing official confirms it, so treat it as a bonus rather than a guarantee.
TNG is Tangier’s single-terminal airport, about 12 km southwest of the city centre, handling roughly 1.5 million passengers a year.
Landside, Before Security
Smoking is permitted outside the terminal building, landside, before check-in or the security checkpoint — the confirmed option at TNG under Morocco’s Law 15-91, which does not restrict smoking in the open air. It’s also the first option on arrival.
After Security
A review posted on a travel-smoking forum in December 2024 described a small smoking cabin near Gate 10 in the departures concourse — built to hold three people and, according to the same review, often accommodating five or six. The same review said the smoking room that had previously existed inside the Pearl Lounge closed around the same time, effectively replaced by the Gate 10 cabin. The lounge network’s own current listing for the Main Terminal lounge — now branded Aspire Lounge and the only lounge shown at TNG — marks it a non-smoking lounge, corroborating that the old smoking room is gone. The Gate 10 cabin claim itself is a single dated report rather than an airport-published fact, so if you cannot find the cabin, ask a member of terminal staff rather than assume it has moved; the landside area remains the option you can count on.
Vaping
TNG publishes no separate e-cigarette rule, and Morocco’s Law 15-91 predates vaping and does not mention it. Vape at the outdoor landside area; the same single December 2024 report that describes the Gate 10 smoking cabin gives no indication either way about vaping there, so treat it as unconfirmed for e-cigarettes too.
Summary
| Area | Smoking | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Outdoor landside | Yes | Before check-in or security, under Law 15-91 |
| After security (Gate 10 cabin) | Unconfirmed | Single December 2024 traveller report; small cabin, capacity 3 (often 5–6) |
| Pearl Lounge (now Aspire Lounge) | No | Traveller report says its smoking room closed around December 2024; lounge network’s own listing marks it non-smoking |
| Terminal interior | Unconfirmed | No indoor smoking facility is confirmed outside the reported Gate 10 cabin |
| Vaping | Same as smoking | No separate airport rule; Morocco’s 1995 law does not address e-cigarettes |
For Morocco’s airport smoking rules and vaping law, see our Morocco airport smoking guide.