Gas extraction and transmission certainly affects people outside the house, so anything to reduce gas consumption is a win. Also, gas burning absolutely affects the entire neighborhood: https://concernedhealthny.org/2022/10/burning-fossil-fuel-in... I could not find the link but the problem is especially acute for people who live near restaurants in NYC. And that comment about how it's cooking food that's the problem, not the fuel, is 100% wrong: https://archive.is/A23eV

This comment and the other reply are just jaw-droppingly naive and ignorant. The indoor air quality while using a gas stove jumps to wildly unhealthy levels. But those pollutants do not just disappear! Much of it is deposited on indoor walls or residents' lungs, but much of it also leaks out of the building. Yes it is true that one teeny widdle stove won't hurt anyone except yourself, but that's why this is a tragedy of the commons that requires government regulation.

>the problem is especially acute for people who live near restaurants in NYC.

A simile to this is saying electric bikes are dangerous and should be banned because they are motorized transports, and as my neighbor died in a frontal collision between his car and 18 wheeler it's highly irresponsible to let a teenager ride on e-bikes.

Magnitude soup.