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I recall sitting on my front stoop in Brooklyn N.Y. as a young girl and watching the trucks come up the block all the time during the summer months. They would spray a white substance that stuck to the trees like paint. There was a mist all around. We also had these cardboard boxes that had a yellow waxy looking object inside. They were hung from the ceiling in our bedrooms during the summer to kill mosquitoes. (sort of like the modern roach motel) but for mosquitoes. In my early teens (early '70's) I recall my parents saying they would never use them again as they were found to be harmful. My husband grew up in a huge housing complex in Queens, N.Y. He told me how they would spray the grounds constantly for bugs during the summer. Just about everyone he knew who lived there developed some sort of cancer. Himself included with bladder cancer at age 42. So ------------ looks like there is definetely a connection.
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