Public response to anti-smoking campaign calls for testing availability

German pharmaceuticals and chemicals manufacturer, Boehringer Ingelheim, has said that GPs and respiratory units nationwide have been inundated with requests for spirometry testing following the Irish Thoracic Society's recent Ash Wednesday campaign.

The campaign highlighted the classic symptoms of COPD (Chronic Pulmonary Obstructive Disease), encouraging people showing any of the symptoms to have their lungs tested using spirometry.