Editing Cooking (section)

=== Indoor air pollution ===
{{Main|Household air pollution}}
As of 2021, over 2.6 billion people cook using open fires or inefficient stoves using [[kerosene]], [[biomass]], and [[coal]] as fuel.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Household air pollution |url=https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/household-air-pollution-and-health |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=www.who.int |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-01-16 |title=Polluting cooking methods, used by billions of people around the world, remain a threat to women's health |url=https://www.equaltimes.org/polluting-cooking-methods-used-by |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=Equal Times |language=en}}</ref> These cooking practices use fuels and technologies that produce high levels of household [[air pollution]], causing 3.8 million premature deaths annually. Of these deaths, 27% are from [[pneumonia]], 27% from [[ischaemic heart disease]], 20% from [[chronic obstructive pulmonary disease]], 18% from [[stroke]], and 8% from [[lung cancer]]. Women and young children are disproportionately affected, since they spend the most time near the hearth.<ref name="who-airpollution">{{cite web |title=Household air pollution and health |url=https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/household-air-pollution-and-health |publisher=World Health Organization |access-date=12 April 2022 |date=22 September 2021}}</ref>