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Where To Smoke At Doha Hamad International Airport (DOH)

Matthew Klint Posted onNovember 22, 2022November 22, 2022 16 Comments

I am not a smoker, but provide airport smoking guides in an effort to help smokers and reduce second-hand smoke. My views on smoking at airports remain unchanged. Doha Hamad International Airport (DOH) claims to be a “smoke-free facility” but in reality smoking rooms are widely available.

Smoking At DOH Airport

Very simply, as you make your way through the terminal, you will come across separately-ventilated smoking rooms every 100 meters or so.

At midnight, ahead of Qatar Airways’ late-night departure bank, the smoking rooms will be packed. As a non-smoker, I cannot imagine how nasty that must be to be in a room that is absolutely packed with smokers huddled around ashtrays trying to smoke a cigarette or two or three ahead of their flight.

One complaint is that when these rooms are so full, the smoke does waft out and you smell it in the departure hall (faintly, but it is there). It would be nice if they were double-doored.

Other smoking rooms require you to walk down a hallway in order to enter, which further reduces the risk of second-hand smoke.

You will have no trouble finding a place to smoke here, though no restaurant offers a smoking area nor is there any outdoor terrace that I am aware of in which smoking is permitted.

CONCLUSION

Doha Hamad International airport is a smoker-friendly airport. You will easily find a place to smoke before your flight or during a layover.

A personal request. I write these smoking guides even though I am a non-smoker to try to keep people from smoking outside airport entrances. Understand that when you smoke there, everyone walking by inhales your smoke. However, when you use the designated areas, no one smells it except those who choose to be there (as long as the door remains shut).

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Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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16 Comments

  1. William Robert Reply
    November 22, 2022 at 4:01 pm

    Imagine being seated next to one of these people on a flight back to the states. They should be required to shower and put on fresh clothes

    • peter Reply
      January 25, 2023 at 3:51 am

      What a stupid comment . Can only be American who thinks he owns the world. imagine SOMEONE SITTING NEXT TO YOU AND HAVE TO ENDURE YOUR BREATH . There will always be smokers and non smokers. Stop trying to control everyone , that is why you struggle to be liked around the world . Smokers have as much a right as you who do not smoke .

  2. Tony N Reply
    November 22, 2022 at 4:22 pm

    Its been shown in studies that high sugary foods and processed foods are just as bad for your longevity and health and getting cancer as smoking is. Just saying.

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      November 22, 2022 at 4:31 pm

      But unless someone is eating Panda Express or McDonald’s next to me, sugar and processed foods don’t stink.

    • DC Reply
      November 22, 2022 at 10:48 pm

      Um, no Tony. You’re “just saying” incorrectly. Those other habits are certainly bad for you and cancer linked, but smoking is still the king of cancer causation.

    • Abigail Oneill Reply
      November 23, 2022 at 8:36 pm

      Yet eating poorly affects only that person- not others. You’ve missed the impact of second hand and third hand smoke.

  3. Stannis Reply
    November 22, 2022 at 6:55 pm

    Changi is the best, with outdoor elevated smoking patios. Don’t understand why more airports don’t do this.

  4. Maryland Reply
    November 22, 2022 at 8:57 pm

    I have never smoked indoors, in a vehicle or anything similar. It stinks, makes anyone, stinky and I despise the odor. I take such precautions as covering my hair & washing my hands after every cig. It’s disgusting and I refuse to enter any airport smoke box. Frankly you needn’t light up if you do so. Eliminating those boxes would be a godsend. This is coming from a smoker

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      November 22, 2022 at 11:04 pm

      But when you smoke outdoors, do you do it in front of the door so that everyone has to walk through a cloud of smoke? That’s such a problem at LAX to this day that I wish each terminal still had a smoking area.

      • Abigail Oneill Reply
        November 23, 2022 at 8:39 pm

        Thanks for writing this. This issue is the bane of my existence – everywhere. Cig smoke makes me violently ill. And RDU is awful – smokers everywhere. Please keep writing.

      • Maryland Reply
        November 30, 2022 at 8:30 pm

        Just seeing this days later. I have posted (months ago about stink in response to Kyle’s). In Manhattan for instance I’ve walked about 3 blocks & an an alley corner to smoke. And most Marriott’s have a fenced smoker plot. I call it the shaming corner. Usually on a public street. And yes I’m shamed. There’s a whole backstory to my smoking. At an advanced age I was diagnosed with both a red & white blood cell cancer. I had never smoked before & was suddenly attracted to it . Go figure. This is information I rarely would make public. And as I’ve previously posted it absolutely stinks.

  5. Sam Reply
    November 22, 2022 at 10:48 pm

    Glad they have these rooms in DOH. Godda get my nic fix in before flying 14 hours. Especially if I must enter a country to go outside, which I prefer to the rooms. SIN & IST have it figured out with the outdoor areas airside. Thanks for the info Matthew.

  6. Dave Edwards Reply
    November 22, 2022 at 11:13 pm

    So if you are a dude, you can’t have a beer or another man’s c#ck, but a cigarette is fine. Got it.

    • Jon Reply
      November 23, 2022 at 12:23 am

      Exactly

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      November 23, 2022 at 9:30 am

      Huh?

  7. DaninMCI Reply
    November 23, 2022 at 7:20 am

    As a non-smoker, it drives me crazy that most airports have gone to great lengths to remove smoking areas (air-side). All this does is either force smokers to go through security to get out to the curb and then in turn add more people coming back through security or make smokers nervous and edgy which isn’t good in an airport either.

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