After the first long term study of using gas cookers...the researchers have concluded that 40,000 people a year, in Europe alone, die as a consequence of using gas cookers (twice the number killed by cars)...it also says that the connection between using gas and heart and lung problems...had already been well established "over many years"...(DW News story)... All we get in Australia is adverts for and by Gas companies telling us how wonderful they are! When were they going to tell us about this? Money money money......