Supported by: Kenneth Gibson*, Jeremy Balfour*, Miles Briggs*, Stuart McMillan*, Audrey Nicoll*, Gillian Martin*, Stephanie Callaghan*, Emma Harper*, Bill Kidd*, Martin Whitfield*, Karen Adam*, Christine Grahame*, Alasdair Allan*, Annabelle Ewing*, Marie McNair*, Jackie Dunbar* *S6M-04211 Alexander Stewart: World Asthma Day 2022—That the Parliament welcomes World Asthma Day; understands that the event, which for 2022 is being held on 3 May, intends to raise awareness and help improve the lives of the many people around the world who have asthma, a common, but potentially life-threatening, condition; acknowledges that World Asthma Day was initially established in 1998 by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) to promote awareness of asthma as a condition that was recognised as being on the increase; considers that, by 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognised asthma as being of major public health importance and estimated that almost 340 million people in the world were living with it and that, in that year, there were over 400,000 deaths due to this disease of the lungs; believes that, even now, while almost everyone is familiar with the look and sound of an inhaler for asthma being used, not everyone is as aware of the actual nature and cause of the condition, in addition to the fact that there are myriad forms in existence; acknowledges that the known aggravators of asthma are many and include everything from allergens to air pollution as well as various chemicals, which irritate the lungs; further acknowledges that recent analysis from Asthma + Lung UK shows that women who have asthma are almost twice as likely to die...