Cologne Cigarette Smokers’ Guide

Indoor bar areas are smoke-free in NRW. The current rules no longer allow separate smoking rooms in hospitality venues.

Applies in: North Rhine-Westphalia

Indoor nightclub areas are smoke-free in NRW. The current rules no longer allow separate smoking rooms in hospitality venues.

Applies in: North Rhine-Westphalia

Indoor restaurant areas are smoke-free in NRW. The current rules no longer allow separate smoking rooms in hospitality venues.

Applies in: North Rhine-Westphalia

A genuinely open-air terrace is outside NRW’s ordinary enclosed-space ban. Enclosed restaurant extensions follow indoor rules. The venue can prohibit smoking.

Applies in: North Rhine-Westphalia

A smoking-club label does not exempt an NRW hospitality venue. The private-use exclusion does not by itself establish an accessible members-only club or its classification. No visitor sign-up arrangement has been verified.

Applies in: North Rhine-Westphalia

A hospitality venue cannot evade NRW’s indoor ban by calling itself a smoking bar or smokers’ club. The former hospitality exemptions were removed.

Applies in: North Rhine-Westphalia

The NRW statute does not impose a general ban on ordinary open streets. Protected premises, local site restrictions and operator rules still apply; follow signs.

Applies in: North Rhine-Westphalia