Time to ban cooking all together! Its for the chilrun, don't ya know!
Breathing is a hazzard to your health.
Before I read this thoroughly, I was thinking "well, everyone in my wife's neighborhood in Bangkok cooks with gas, and on little portable stoves with no ventilation." Now, come to find out, the story is about Hong Kong.
Have any of you ever been inside a typical Hong Kong apartment? They are about the size of a large American bathroom. My wife's aunt has a two bedroom place there. One bedroom is the size of the bed, literally. You crawl in through the door. The master bedroom has about six square feet to stand up in. The rest of the apartment is about the size of the two bedrooms put together. There are no ventilation fans, although sometimes the cooking is done on or next to the balcony, where there is one.
A study based on conditions in HK has no bearing on the situation in the US.
Paid for by the Chinese Electric Company.
. . . may discourage cooking with gas (no doubt the intention here); but also tells us if only by a stretch, that pollution makes us stronger. . .kind of a homeopathic gift from our environment - the old peck of dirt. . .
That said, I am not buying it; and yes; I am cooking with gas.
"Dr. T. W. Wong of the Chinese University of Hong Kong "
Maybe what he wants is a return to charcoal in enclosed spaces. eventually they will find out,
TWO WONGS WONT MAKE IT RIGHT.
As Hank Hill would say, "Butane's a bastard gas."