Yes, travellers in Myanmar can smoke airside at Yangon International Airport (RGN), the country’s main international gateway, in the indoor smoking rooms on the First and Second Floors of Terminal 1, past immigration and security. Cigarettes are legal in Myanmar, and its 2006 tobacco law requires smoking places to be set aside in airport buildings, whose public areas are otherwise non-smoking; e-cigarettes and heated-tobacco devices have been banned since February 2026, so leave them at home.
Myanmar 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Yangon (RGN) | Yes | Yes |
Myanmar’s Tobacco Law
Myanmar’s tobacco law is the Control of Smoking and Consumption of Tobacco Product Law (State Peace and Development Council Law No. 5/2006), enacted on 4 May 2006 and in force since May 2007:
- Airports: the places in airport buildings to which the public has access are non-smoking areas, private offices and rooms excepted, and specific places where smoking is allowed must be arranged in them; the same rule covers railway stations, ports, bus terminals, hotels, restaurants, offices, factories, trains and passenger vessels
- Always non-smoking: passenger aircraft and vehicles, lifts and escalators, air-conditioned public rooms, marts, department stores, shops and market sheds, hospitals and clinics, schools, cinemas, museums, public libraries and auditoriums, among the places the law lists
- Signs and smoking places: whoever runs a building must mark its non-smoking areas, set up and sign the smoking place the law requires in buildings such as airports, and stop anyone smoking in the non-smoking areas
- Fines: smoking, or holding a lit cigarette, in a non-smoking area carries a fine of 1,000 to 5,000 kyats, and the police make the person caught sign a bond to appear in court; a person in charge who fails in those duties can be fined 1,000 to 3,000 kyats, or 3,000 to 10,000 kyats for a repeat conviction
- Sales: cigarettes may not be sold or given to anyone under 18, sold singly or in packs of fewer than 20, or sold within 100 yards of a school
Vaping and Heated Tobacco
Myanmar’s Ministry of Health banned electronic smoking devices by Order No. 8/2026 of 18 February 2026, made under the Essential Supplies and Services Law of 2012. The order covers e-cigarettes, heated-tobacco devices and electronic shisha, with their batteries, chargers, cartridges, liquids and other parts, and bars their import, export, sale, storage, possession and use. Customs officers can seize them at airports and other points of entry, so leave every vape and heated-tobacco device at home.
Bringing Cigarettes into Myanmar
Each arriving passenger may bring in up to 400 cigarettes, 50 cigars and 250 g of pipe tobacco duty-free. After baggage claim, passengers with nothing to declare take the Green Channel, and anyone carrying more than the allowance declares it in the Red Channel. E-cigarettes, heated-tobacco devices and their liquids fall under the 2026 ban and may not be brought in at all.
The Airport
Yangon International Airport (RGN). Myanmar’s main international gateway: international flights use Terminal 1 and domestic flights Terminal 3. Terminal 1 has indoor smoking rooms on the First and Second Floors, past immigration and security. The airport lists no smoking room at Terminal 3, so before security at either terminal, smoke outside the airport property, beyond the terminal kerb and car parks, and ask staff at Terminal 3 whether there is a room past security.
Tips for Smokers in Myanmar
- At Yangon, have your last cigarette in a Terminal 1 smoking room on the First or Second Floor, past security, before you head to the gate
- Keep to the designated smoking places: the public areas of airport buildings, passenger aircraft, lifts and air-conditioned public rooms are non-smoking, and smoking there carries a fine of 1,000 to 5,000 kyats
- Leave vapes and heated-tobacco devices at home: Myanmar has banned them since February 2026, possession and use included
- If you have nothing else to declare, keep within 400 cigarettes, 50 cigars and 250 g of pipe tobacco to use the Green Channel