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It looks like the original source for the study is https://clasp.ngo/research/all/eu-gas-cooking-health/

The currently linked article is only a very brief summary.

yes, and that is more of a lobbyist paper aimed at policymakers, it refers to some TNO studies as the "scientific" basis for the claims, but those studies are not publicly available, at least they're not linked directly in the references section, and searching for them also doesn't give immediate results. the other thing they refer to are "simulations" which have little value in proving the statements. otherwise the whole thing is a confusion between causality and correlation. as it stands i consider this a bullshit paper pushing some political agenda, possibly by induction heating manufacturers or electricity companies.

Most of the scientific claims seem pretty uncontroversial to me. It's true NOx is bad for respiratory health. It's almost certainly true that gas cooking produces NOx, and higher levels of CO2 and probably some carbon monoxide as well. It comes on top of the VOCs from the cooking itself.

Public health is probably a sufficient reason to phase out gas for cooking wherever we can.

It's exactly what it is.

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