That gas stove you're cooking on could be giving your kids asthma, US study finds | Business Insider

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That gas stove you're cooking on could be giving your kids asthma, US study finds

About 650,000 kids in the US likely have asthma because of gas stoves, a study found.Climate advocates are pointing to the study to help make the case for phasing out fossil fuels.Most parents know that secondhand smoke can lead to asthma in kids. It's probably a surprise that cooking on a gas stove carries similar risks.

Seals, whose employer advocates for electrifying buildings, said there were decades' worth of studies on the correlation between gas stoves and childhood asthma but it's been siloed or shelved away. Now, some climate advocates are putting the pieces together to bolster the case for phasing out fossil fuels in buildings, which, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

The momentum was met with an opposition campaign by the US gas industry and their allies in state legislatures.The American Gas Association, a trade group representing the natural gas industry, in a statement in part because researchers used estimated health risks and didn't conduct their own measurements on appliance usage, emissions, or exposures.

 

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BISouthAfrica What choice do we have? And braai is outdoors, bit smokey as hell.

Euphonious_Zito BISouthAfrica 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Do they have a choice

BISouthAfrica Hmm maybe we should cook ka magadima ge

BISouthAfrica so what must be done now? i mean we dont have electricity 🤷🏽‍♀️

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