The article states:

> Despite this evidence, the gas industry’s campaign was largely successful. Industry-funded studies successfully muddied the waters, as I have seen over the course of my research career, and stalled further federal investigations or regulations addressing gas stove safety.

Consumer indifference to safety concerns and federal lethargy in regulating or investigating them are, to me, precisely the outcomes a misinformation campaign of this kind would aim for.

Nor is the impact small. It's just one study, but:

> This issue took on new life at the end of 2022, when researchers published a new study estimating that 12.7 percent of US cases of childhood asthma—about one case in eight—were attributable to gas stoves.