Yes, you can smoke at Senegal’s main airport. Dakar’s Blaise Diagne International keeps indoor smoking rooms inside its airside departure lounges near Gate 1, and the airport’s own website lists the Salon Ultimate as a smoking lounge. Outside the building, you can smoke in the open air landside before security.
Senegal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dakar (DSS) | Yes | Yes |
For international travel through Senegal, Dakar (DSS) is the airport to use, as Air Senegal’s hub.
How Senegalese Airport Smoking Works
Senegal’s 2014 tobacco law bans smoking in enclosed public spaces except in designated areas, and Blaise Diagne uses that carve-out through its lounges:
- Airside lounge smoking rooms near Gate 1 — the Odyssée Lounge, Salon Infinite and Salon Ultimate all offer one; lounge access required (lounge-membership cards, eligible premium tickets, or a walk-in fee)
- Open-air landside smoking outside the terminal before security — no separately marked area, so stand clear of the doors
- No free public smoking room in the open airside concourse — the lounge rooms are the after-security option
- E-cigarettes: sale is permitted with restrictions and there is no national vape ban; the airport publishes no separate vaping rule for the lounge smoking rooms — ask lounge staff before using one
The Hub
Blaise Diagne International Airport (DSS). Senegal’s modern gateway (opened December 2017) near Diass, Air Senegal’s hub, replacing the old Léopold Sédar Senghor airport. The airside smoking rooms cluster in the departure lounges near Gate 1, with the Salon Ultimate described by the airport itself as a smoking lounge (walk-in around 35,000 FCFA or free with lounge-membership and other eligible cards). Transit passengers with lounge access can smoke without leaving airside; everyone else smokes in the open air outside the terminal before security.
Tips for Smokers at Senegalese Airports
- Buy or bring lounge access if you want to smoke after security — the rooms sit inside the Gate 1 lounges
- Without lounge access, finish your cigarette in the open air outside the terminal before you clear security
- The airport’s own site lists the Ultimate lounge as a smoking lounge
- Vaping: use it in the open air landside before security; ask lounge staff before using a device in a lounge smoking room