Yes, you can smoke at Tromsø Airport (TOS) — outside the terminal building, landside, where Norwegian law permits smoking in the open air. Tromsø Airport Langnes keeps no indoor smoking rooms and no airside smoking area, so the terminal is smoke-free from check-in through to the gates.
Langnes, the main airport for northern Norway, is run by Avinor from two connected terminal buildings above the Arctic Circle.
Where to Smoke
Smoking is permitted outside the terminal building, landside — Norwegian law allows smoking in the open air, and neither terminal has an indoor room, so this is the only sanctioned spot. Step outside before check-in or after collecting your bags to reach it.
Because the only option is landside, the practical move is to have your last cigarette before you go through the security checkpoint. Once you’re airside there is nowhere to smoke until you land. The indoor ban is enforced: Norwegian broadcaster NRK reported that Tromsø Airport was evacuated in October 2025 after someone smoked in a terminal toilet and set off the fire alarm.
After Security and Transit Passengers
There is no smoking area past security and no indoor smoking room in either terminal building. Passengers connecting through TOS who want to smoke have to exit the secure zone to the outdoor area, landside, and then pass back through screening to return to their gate. On a tight connection this eats into your buffer, so treat a short layover through Tromsø as a smoke-free stop.
Vaping
Norway’s Tobacco Damage Act (tobakksskadeloven) states that its indoor smoking-ban chapter applies equally to electronic cigarettes, so vaping at TOS follows the same rule as smoking: outdoors, landside, outside the terminal building.
Summary
| Area | Smoking | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Indoor (terminal) | No | Entirely smoke-free in both terminal buildings |
| After security / airside | No | No smoking area in either terminal |
| Outdoor (landside) | Yes | Outside the terminal building |
| Vaping | Outdoor only | Same landside area as smoking; not permitted indoors |
For Norway’s airport smoking rules and vaping law, including Oslo and Bergen, see our Norway airport smoking guide.