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Nusrat Homaira, Senior Lecturer, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney

Your gas stove might be making your asthma worse. Here’s what you can do about it

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We may think of air pollution as an outdoor problem, made up of car exhaust and smog. But if the air inside our homes is polluted, this can also affect our health.

In Australia, around 12% of childhood asthma can be attributed to gas stoves and the toxic chemicals they release into the air. And while there’s a growing push to phase out gas indoors, some 38% of Australian households rely on natural gas for cooking.

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