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The World Health Organisation (WHO) warns that a teenagers and people in their and thirties are damaging their hearing with music. It says half the young people in countries risk hearing loss because of listening to music at "unsafe" . Loud music in nightclubs, bars and at sporting increases the risk. The WHO says a safe is to listen to music for an hour a day. The WHO director for injury prevention said: "What we're trying to do is raise of an issue that is not talked about ." He said people can prevent hearing loss.

Turning the down and listening to music for than one hour a day could save many people's hearing. However, the WHO director also said that, "even an can be too much if the is too loud". A biomedical researcher explained how noise can damage ears. He said: "Loud damage your hearing by killing off thousands of little hair in the inner ear. The cells detect …sounds through …but they are very fragile and if they vibrate too much due to loud sounds for too , they get damaged and die." He warned that if they die, they regrow.

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