Last week, an official with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said it was considering banning new gas stoves amid research that links them to childhood asthma. The reaction was fast, and furious.
In 2005, the World Health Organization put out guidelines recommending limiting exposure to nitrogen dioxide , one of the toxic compounds released when a gas stove is turned on. However, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, despite having conducted its own research linking NO2 levels to childhood asthma, has not published indoor air quality regulations., cutting the previous short-term exposure limit by almost two thirds.
Green, who is a family physician in Toronto, recommends using the precautionary principle around gas stoves. “The relationship between cooking with natural gas and asthma appear to be more coincidental than causal,” it wrote, citing a study that found “There’s no significant difference between cooking with natural gas and electric stoves in terms of indoor air quality.”
While initially the gas industry distanced itself from the phrase, it later grew to embrace it, even producing a now-cringeworthy rap video in 1988. Those marketing tactics have evolved in the era of social media, with influencers now paid to promote gas cooking on social media, using the hashtag #CookingWithGas.But with last week’s American hysterics over gas stove, the online debate took a different turn.
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