[Teacher317]

4.3 million dead per year? From cooking? Where do they get these numbers???

Only about 65 million people died on the entire planet last year, from all causes combined.

[Freeping Since 2001]

4.3 million dead per year? From cooking? Where do they get these numbers???

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Easy. 215,000,000 (say) people cook over smoky fires in their huts. Say 2% of them die each year as would be expected. All of those are believed to have had their lives shortened slightly (or significantly) from the stove smoke. That’s 4.3 million “premature deaths” each year.

[Vinnie]

Falling into the open fire accounts for some.
Splatter from turkey fryers probably account for some. :^()

Perfect example of a gov. agency thinking up ways to perpetuate their existence.

[RedMonqey]

4.3 million dead per year? From cooking? Where do they get these numbers???

From the same cooked up studies that said asthma is worsened by coal plants, second hand smoke causes cancer and global warming is a real threat

Just an excuse to regulate every aspect of our lives....

[Bulwyf]

Wow, that’s a lot of people having freak stove accidents.

How does that happen? If you were standing over your stove stirring a pot of spaghetti sauce, you slip and fall and the wooden spoon you had in your hand somehow hits first and then drives into the brain through the eye? That’s a lot of unlucky people.