To the editor: Whereas I agree with the sentiment of Dr. Lisa Patel’s op-ed article, I want she had supplied a clearer image of the chance related to publicity to benzene from utilizing a gasoline range.
Leukemia is probably the most critical consequence of publicity to benzene. Because the publicity to benzene from gasoline stoves has been in comparison with that related to second-hand smoke, we are able to look to people who smoke for a “worst-case state of affairs.”
A Nationwide Institutes of Well being research discovered that people who smoke had a 13% elevated threat for leukemia total, although the chance for sure subtypes was a lot increased. Some “again of the envelope” calculations recommend that roughly eight of each 100,000 people who smoke will develop leukemia on account of benzene publicity in any given yr. The chance for gasoline range customers could be anticipated to be considerably much less.
Quantitative estimates like this together with different elements, together with the significance of lowering fossil gasoline consumption, ought to assist folks determine whether or not to surrender their gasoline stoves.
Glenn Rogers, M.D., South Pasadena
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To the editor: Warning labels have been on cigarette packs since 1965.
The research referenced in Patel’s article would have us imagine that utilizing a gasoline range will be as dangerous as second-hand smoking. If that is true, the place are the lawsuits and different research?
I discover the timing of this research to be too handy contemplating the current push, in some circles, to get rid of gasoline stoves.
Paul Salerno, Riverside
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To the editor: Once I was planning a kitchen rework in 2006, I wished a gasoline range. However there wasn’t a gasoline line the place I wanted it, after which I realized about induction.
Induction is extra environment friendly than gasoline. It additionally cooks quicker and throws out far much less warmth and no indoor pollution. Immediately there are many selections for induction, together with each cooktops and ranges.
Sue Guilford, Orange
