Yes, you can smoke at Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW). Enclosed glass smoking booths sit after security on both the Schengen and non-Schengen concourses of Terminal A, there is a heated-tobacco/IQOS lounge near Gate 33, and designated outdoor smoking areas wait landside outside the terminal.
Warsaw is one of several European hubs with indoor smoking after security — see Frankfurt Airport’s indoor smoking lounges after security and Zurich Airport’s many indoor smoking lounges after security.
Warsaw Chopin is the main hub of LOT Polish Airlines and Poland’s busiest airport. It runs from a single passenger building, Terminal A, split into Schengen and non-Schengen departure areas. Because roughly a fifth of the airport’s passengers are smokers, several small glass cabins are spread across the airside piers, so wherever your gate is you are rarely far from one.
Smoking After Security: Schengen Concourse (Gates 23 and 33)
Most WAW flights leave from the Schengen concourse, which holds the majority of the indoor smoking booths. Travellers report small enclosed glass cabins near Gate 23 and near Gate 33. These are compact cubicles with a sliding glass door, so at busy times they can fill up and the air near the entrance gets smoky. The larger, more secluded booth that used to serve Gate 43 has closed and is being converted to retail, so head for the Gate 23 or Gate 33 cabins instead.
Smoking After Security: Non-Schengen Concourse (Gate 1N)
If your flight departs from a non-Schengen gate — anything beyond passport control, such as flights to the UK, US, or other non-Schengen destinations — there is a glass smoking booth near Gate 1N. It is the same cubicle design as the Schengen-side cabins. Plan to use it before you settle at your gate, since crossing back to the Schengen booths would mean clearing passport control again.
The IQOS Lounge Near Gate 33
Also on the Schengen side near Gate 33 is a heated-tobacco/IQOS lounge, which is roomier than the plain cubicles and has seating. Travellers report it now functions mainly as an IQOS retail and sampling point rather than an open smoking room, and several note that loose vaping is not welcomed inside. Treat it as a heated-tobacco spot and use the standard glass booths for cigarettes.
Landside and Outdoor Smoking
Before security, smoking indoors is limited to the branded JTI smoking lounge in the Departures (check-in) hall, a small enclosed room next to the Relay newsagent that keeps daytime hours. Otherwise, use the designated outdoor smoking areas just outside the terminal entrances — the easiest option before check-in and the only choice once you land and clear arrivals.
Connecting Through Warsaw
The Gate 23, 33 and 1N booths are all past the security checkpoint, so a transit passenger can smoke without re-clearing screening — just stay on the correct side of passport control for your onward flight. If your journey continues through southern Poland, you will find the same indoor-after-security setup at the smoking areas at Kraków Airport (KRK), which has an enclosed lounge in each of its Schengen and non-Schengen areas.
Vaping
Poland regulates e-cigarettes and heated tobacco the same way as cigarettes for indoor public-place bans. Vape inside the designated smoking booths and rooms or outdoors; it is not permitted freely elsewhere in the terminal.
The official airport site does not publish a smoking map, so treat the gate numbers above as traveller-reported and follow the on-site signage to the nearest booth.
Summary
| Area | Smoking | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Indoor booths — Schengen (airside) | Yes | Glass cabins near Gates 23 and 33; former Gate 43 spot closed |
| Indoor booth — non-Schengen (airside) | Yes | Glass cabin near Gate 1N |
| IQOS / heated-tobacco lounge | Yes | Near Gate 33; mainly an IQOS sales point |
| Departures hall lounge (landside) | Yes | Branded JTI smoking lounge, daytime hours |
| Landside outdoor | Yes | Designated areas outside the terminal entrances |
For Poland’s airport smoking rules and vaping law, see our Poland airport guide.