This whole "debate" is so manufactured.<p>Frying creates particles that you don't want to inhale, so you need extraction regardless of whether you use gas or induction/electric.<p>The correct question is "should you ventilate a hob" and the answer is _obviously_ yes.
The asthmatics can switch to cooking on glorified hot plates if that makes them happy while the rest of us can continue cooking with our woks over gas.<p>The rules are constantly being tweaked to appease the 0.01% at the expense of everybody else and it's getting a little frustrating.
Remember the narrative a few months ago?<p>> Don't be a conspiracy theorist! Nobody is coming for your gas stove! Are you paranoid??!<p>Now all of that has come true. Suddenly NYC has banned stoves. And stoves are causing asthma. Soon we will discover that gas stoves are part of a scheme devised by the devil himself.<p>Consider the fact that if product of technology X is better than Y, people will automatically switch over to Y. You wouldn't need to force them. If you have to, it means you haven't considered the pros and cons properly.
I should have said that gas stoves were more common when the boomers were growing up, and that asthma was less common, or less commonly discussed. But the houses that boomers grew up in were a lot leakier, or if you will better ventilated.