In this article, early career members and experienced members of the
Epidemiology and Environment Assembly of the European Respiratory
Society highlight and summarise a selection of six sessions from the
Society's annual congress, which in 2018 was held in Paris, France. The
topics covered in these sessions span from cutting-edge molecular
epidemiology of lung function to clinical, occupational and
environmental epidemiology of respiratory disease, and from emergent
tobacco products to tobacco control