It can affect your health if you live near one of these fields. It can affect you if it's used to fumigate your house because it's still used for that purpose. And it can affect you because it's one of the most serious of ozone depleters. The size of ozone depletion is significant, is growing , which means more ultraviolet radiation. We're not talking about something trivial.
Ozone depletion kills people.
It is so shocking and so threatening that over a hundred nations of the world came together in Montreal and signed a treaty to ban methyl bromide in order to protect the stratospheric ozone layer. A couple of years later, because they did not think it was tough enough, they even tightened it. This is a success story. The chlorofluorocarbons are being cut back. Methyl bromide, one of these ozone depleting gases, is supposed to be phased out after the year 2000.