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Electric heating is so inefficient that they literally ran gas lines to every building in modern America. And it hasn’t gotten any more efficient.
Wouldn’t mandating better ventilation prevent the adverse health outcomes and be cheaper than replacing gas stoves? >

It would help, but people mostly don't even turn on the hoods they have.
We also want to stop using fossil fuels because of how they impact the climate. >

Not sure of numbers but a large number of hoods don't even actually vent outside they just blow right into the kitchen so changing that might be a good start >

That's how mine is, just vents through the microwave into the kitchen. I always open my windows when I cook with it however I'm not interested in switching to electric since gas is better (in my personal opinion) for cooking. >

Gas is definitely better than old school electric for cooking, but there's people that swear by the new induction stove tops and say they are at least equivalent to gas in the heat control you get. >

Old school electric? What? The gas stove was invented in 1826, replaced wood and coal and were in a majority of home kitchens by the early 1920s. Electric stoves were invented in 1896 and weren’t even considered in home kitchens until the late 1920s. Like I agree with your general points (though I would add hydrogen stoves are probably going to be an option someday), but don’t be calling electric stoves “old school.” >

For context, this is the latest in a line of studies over the past ~15 years about how nitrogen oxide emissions from gas stoves are responsible for a large fraction of childhood asthma cases. >

Big Gas hid this from us for decades. Induction stove are so much better at cooking. >

It's time to break up with our gas stoves - Climate Town >

It’s just coming out. Gas stoves fill your house with carcinogens. Even when they are off. Even if it’s a new, fancy stove. 
The companies that make gas stoves have been poisoning us for generations. Now watch this turn into a political issue with the right latching on to gas stoves and calling electric stoves “woke stoves” >

Every time this issue comes up, the comment section is completely full of conspiracy nuts who believe that gas can't do anything bad for your health and maybe it's the big scary electric industry that wants to hurt you. 
Also, suddenly everyone is suddenly a Michelin Star chef who just absolutely needs to always cook on gas because electric doesn't work for all their fancy meals. 
And then there's the contingent that's worried about power outages because obviously it's impossible to have a gas outage and obviously you can't have a portable camp stove for emergencies so it's necessary to have a gas stove in your house wrecking your indoor air quality all the time just in case. >

its not a conspiracy its widely known electric stoves suck even for basic cooking unless you buy some super high end induction model. >

It isn’t 1990 anymore. A good induction stove isn’t more expensive than a high-end gas stove >

that may be but i have a relatively new (10ish years idk)gas stove and i dont have money to replace it (also gas heat/water heater)
nor do i have the money to get whatevers needed to make the changeover
now if the government wants to pay for it then i dont really care, but thats probably not the case
also gas bill is 60$ a month and i have a feeling id be paying more than that a month were it all electric, which i also cant afford >

Obviously the way to do it is to ban new gas stoves first, and it would be decades before it would be practical to ban existing ones >

I'm sure natural gas producers are ready to.spend billions to sink that info >

They are. And they've been doing it for decades. Electric stoves were taking over from every other stove type like 70 years ago because they are so much safer and easier to operate. 
Fossil fuel industry was terrified and launched the "Now You're Cooking With Gas" campaign in order to sell people on gas stoves. It was wildly successful and completely reversed the trend to electric in the industry. And this is the origin of everyone who says that you can take their gas stove from their cold dead hands. People really loved the propaganda so much that it's become a part of American culture. >

I was actually told that gas stoves were safer than electric stoves in high school. My maternal grandfather built my house in the late fifties and it has had a gas stove the entire time, nobody developed asthma or anything like that either. >


I was actually told that gas stoves were safer than electric stoves in high school. 

That's the power of propaganda. And your grandparents would have probably been the right age to be the primary target for the "Now You're Cooking With Gas" marketing campaign. >

99.9% of people that don't like to cook either want electric for the few times they cook or they have gas and almost never use it. Those of us that have gas stoves generally want a gas stove and generally have a proper hood that exits the building.
There are so many easier ways to fix this rather than let's ban something and invite the political battle that goes along with it.
Oh and on many houses there is only a gas line and a 110v electric line. So that means a 220V line will need to be run. My mom moved into a newer house in a Florida retirement community. It had a gas stove but no 220V. It was $750.00 to run the wire and add the breaker and outlet. >

There are a couple of startups planning to release induction stoves with a large battery which can run off of 120v lines.  The idea is you only cook a couple hours a day, but the stove can charge 24/7.  It'll also keep working for a week or so if the power goes out.
I expect them to nicely solve this problem. >

That’s pretty cool. As long as it’s cheap then poor people won’t be burdened. >

I'm building a custom house and our architect basically told us we couldn't have a gas stove.  In a modern tightly sealed house, any combustion happening inside the envelope needs to be tightly managed.  He had less problem with wood heat (carefully installed with exhaust and air intake) than a gas range.  Induction is so much better anyway. >

The problem is heating food, most homes don't have good range hoods properly installed. Even with electric you are still inhaling particulate and fumes if you got a crap range hood >

I have a 5 burner gas stove I love, i have 0 children i love. Stove stays.
To be clear i have 0 children unloved or otherwise. >

You just get to breathe the fumes instead. >

Meh, i am in no danger of developing childhood asthma.  i am a 50 yo male that smoked for 35 years.  Cooking in my well ventilated open plan kitchen is not going to be the reason i get cancer. >

"Safety ban" my ass.  I live in a small city in the USA.  I lose power all the time, last time was a few weeks ago for ~12 hours. It was enough that I put in a battery system to keep the fridge and oil heat going at least.  Electric heating of any sort is anathema to batteries (usage is really high and batteries are expensive).  I have a gas range that came with the place. they can take away my ability to cook, boil water, and bathe with warm water when the power is out when they take my gas range from my cold dead hands.
I love when laws only negatively affect normal people. >

There's a fix for this problem in the works: stoves which charge a modestly sized battery (4kwh or so) and then can use it to cook with. >

wow, my 5kwh battery cost $4000. how much will the ranges cost?  I guess I will have to feel like a prepper or cook on my sidewalk like a savage >

They haven't announced pricing, but it's likely going to be designed to cost less than running a 240v power line, which is often several thousand in labor and breaker upgrades. >

I can't read it and can't see the study, but I'm calling b.s. It doesn't pass the test. It sounds like a study funded by oil and car companies to blame anything but cars and oil burning for the rise in asthma. >

There's no way the fossil fuel industry would fund a study to say that fossil fuels burned in your house are bad. Fossil fuel industry wants fossil fuels to be burned everywhere and don't want you to know that there can be negative consequences. >

They don't make much money on gas stoves, this won't break them at all. It's weird you think this would affect much of anything as far as their profit. Their biggest profit is selling electricity. >

They sell gas. How do you not understand that companies that sell gas want to sell gas?