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Gas Stoves Linked to 40,000 Premature Deaths in Europe Annually
Scientists have been investigating the health risks pollution from cooking with gas indoors poses to adults and children.
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Gas stoves in European homes are associated with tens of thousands of premature deaths, a study has found.
Nearly 40,000 early deaths each year in the EU and UK can be linked to exposure to nitrogen dioxide from burning gas for cooking indoors, a study by scientists at Jaume I University in Spain has found, the first such estimate for Europe. The stoves were also associated with hundreds of thousands of pediatric asthma cases in the EU and UK, the study estimated.