Demand for cooking fuels in a developing country: To what extent do taste and preferences matter?

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Household Fuel Use in Developing Countries: Review of Theory and Evidence (2018, background): “For example, the cross-price elasticity of -0.699 reported by Akpalu et al. (2011) would suggest at first sight that LPG and firewood are complements.”
Charcoal, livelihoods, and poverty reduction: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa (2013, background): “These include negative health impacts at the production and use sites generally associatedwith smoke inhalation and carbonmonoxide poisoning (Akpalu et al., 2011; Arnold et al., 2006; Ezzati and Kammen, 2001; IEA, 2010); localized deforestation around cities such as Addis Ababa, Dar es Salaam,…”
Household cooking fuel choice and adoption of improved cookstoves in developing countries : a review (2014, methodology): “Using data from the Ghana LSMS survey, Akpalu et al. (2011) find strong evidence that the most preferred fuel is LPG, followed by charcoal, with kerosene the least preferred.”
Cooking fuel preferences among Ghanaian Households: An empirical analysis (2015, background): “In the literature, to the best of my knowledge, the only published work on Ghana in the area of household cooking fuel is that of Heltberg (2004) and Akpalu et al. (2011).”