Effects of smoking on asthma
Symposium Chairs: M. Peters (San Francisco, United States of America), S. Loukides (Athens, Greece)
Aims: to provide pulmonologists, paediatricians, investigators and health allied professionals with an update on smoking in asthma; to describe new information about the smoking cluster of patients with severe asthma; to describe how to handle the smoking asthmatic phenotype; to encourage concern about special groups of smokers (pregnant women, parents, etc.); and to highlight the need for organising specific programs for asthmatics who smoke.