Yes, open-air smoking outside the terminal building, landside, is permitted at Lomé–Tokoin International Airport (LFW); the airport publishes no designated area, and no smoking facility after security is confirmed.
LFW — officially Aéroport International Gnassingbé Eyadéma — is Togo’s only international gateway and the home hub of ASKY Airlines, with Ethiopian Airlines also routing connecting traffic through it.
Landside — Outside the Terminal
Open-air smoking outside the terminal building, landside, is permitted before check-in and security, under Togo’s 2011 tobacco-control law (implemented by Decree No. 2012-046), which bans smoking in public places. The airport has not published a designated or marked spot.
After Security — Airside
Lomé’s official site (aeroportdelome.com) is protected against automated access and could not be checked directly for a services or amenities listing, even with a real browser, so this cannot be confirmed either way from the airport’s own publications. A separate, detailed independent guide to the airport’s passenger services — welcome desk, ATMs and currency exchange, the SALT-operated “Salon Plus” subscription lounges, internet SIMs, baggage wrapping, a call centre — was read in full and names no smoking facility of any kind. No dated traveller report was found either. No smoking facility after security is confirmed. Transiting ASKY and Ethiopian Airlines passengers without a landside window before their onward flight should plan on the same uncertainty.
Vaping
The safest approach is to treat a vape the same as a cigarette and use the landside option outside the terminal; no airport-specific vaping rule for LFW was found in any source checked.
Summary
| Area | Smoking | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Landside, outside the terminal | Permitted | Open-air, before check-in and security; no designated spot published |
| After security / airside | Not confirmed | Official site unreachable; a detailed independent services guide names no smoking facility; no traveller report found, incl. for ASKY/Ethiopian connecting traffic |
| Indoor terminal | Not confirmed | No source describes an indoor smoking room; public places fall under the 2011 tobacco law |
| Vaping | No rule found in any source checked | Falls into the same landside-only option as smoking |
For Togo airport smoking rules and other Togolese travel info, see our Togo airport smoking guide.