Not age is the leading cause of hearing loss, but noise. Unless you take steps now to protect your ears, sooner or later many of you - and your children - will have difficulty understanding even ordinary speech. Many people, including 12% to 15% of school-age children, already have permanent hearing loss caused by the everyday noise that we take for granted as a fact of life.
While there are myriad regulations to protect people who work in noisy environments, there are relatively few governing repeated exposure to noise outside the workplace, from portable music devices, rock concerts, hair dryers, sirens, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, vacuum cleaners, car alarms and countless other sources.
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Six years of firing mortars will do it, I can assure you. That "foomph" sound they make in movies don't even come close to the reality...
My dad broke the hammer in my ear on Christmas day when I was 13. Got a brand new transistor radio, had the ear plug firmly in my ear canal and dad grabbed the radio from my hands and ramped up the volume waaaay past eleven thinking it was the radio channels' dial. The sound from fresh batteries was so loud it broke the hammer. My ear rang for 3 days, then... well, hearing aids don't help at all. So, yeah, I agree. Pumping up the volume does lead the deafness.
First anonymous, I can only imagine how you'd feel. I took up recreational shooting a couple of years ago - that, along with a few years of car audio (my other hobby) has started to take a toll on my hearing.
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