Sure; modern gas stoves are nothing compared to the coal- or wood-fueled stoves of the old, with their often ineffective and obviously unpowered exhaust mechanisms. Merely a hundred years ago, even in my wealthy Western country, many people lived in huts with only an opening in the ceiling for a chimney.

And of course billions of people live like this right now, domestic coal or kerosene burners being one of the most pressing air quality issues in the world!