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Originally Posted by Altavia
My disagreement is with calling for a ban of gas stoves when the venting them removes the risk.
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I completely agree with you, as I suspect the Consumer Product Safety people will as well... if your statement that venting removes the risk is true.
Do you know it is true? Did you read the research? Do gas stoves produce toxins and significant indoor air pollutants even when they are not being used thus not being ventilated even if you were to require that a vent be running if the stove is in use?
The question to be addressed is what are the risks and what are the mitigation options available. If the risk is high enough and it can not be mitigated then banning is an option. I suggest you click on the link early in this thread which goes to an article. Within that article is another link that takes you to a review of the available studies, as I recall about 80 of them.
I would point out that lead based paint was banned based on data which required that people ingest lead dust to be at risk, lick the walls. And I am sure all of us here or most of us grew up in homes with lead paint which wasn't banned until 1978. Are all of you anti-CPSC people going to come back and tell me that banning lead paint was a government overreach?