Respiratory health and disease in Europe: the new European Lung White Book.

10 years have passed since the European Lung White Book – The first comprehensive survey on respiratory lung health in Europe was published by the European Respiratory Society (ERS) together with the European Lung Foundation (ELF) [1]. Its aims were to highlight the enormous and underestimated health and socioeconomic burdens of respiratory disease in Europe and to inform decision-makers in national health authorities and the European Union (EU) about the importance of lung health and respiratory disease showing the enormous burden of lung disease in Europe [2].