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Gas Stoves Account For More Than Half of Some Americans’ Exposure to a Known Toxin, New Research Concludes
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You can definitely get unvented gas heaters in at least some states.
https://www.homedepot.com/b/Heating-Venting-Cooling-Heaters-Wall-Heaters-Gas-Wall-Heaters/Unvented/N-5yc1vZc7e2Z1z0w9qq
These things exist, but are quite uncommon compared with poorly vented stoves, or people who have a vent for their stove but don't run the fan at the necessary high power
Thing is that they also are going to burn far more gas than is a stove unless you're in a really warm climate.
I don't think that they're permitted to be built into new-build stuff in California, but they're definitely grandfathered in in old buildings, and I've been in many that have them.
searches
https://starfiredirect.com/blogs/articles/why-do-some-states-ban-vent-free-gas-fireplaces
In a world where every home has a stove, 23 million across the US is uncommon, enough so that people don't even know that they exist.
Most stoves in the US are not gas; it's not an "all stoves versus a subset of heaters" sort of situation.
goes looking for percentages
https://www.statista.com/chart/29082/most-common-type-of-stove-in-the-us/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-households-in-the-us/
That'd be a 17.5% marketshare for gas heating, and a 38% marketshare for gas stoves, but the gas heaters are also going to use a lot more gas than gas stoves do. I'd be pretty comfortable saying that a gas heater will average considerably more than twice as much gas as a stove.