Listening to loud music linked with pot use, unsafe sex, study says
Warning: Music may be hazardous to your health.
It’s not just your hearing that’s at risk, according to a study out Monday in the June issue of the journal Pediatrics. Teens and young adults who listen to digital music players with ear buds are almost twice as likely as non-listeners to smoke pot, the study says. And those who attend concerts or frequent dance clubs are nearly six times as likely as homebodies to go on a binge-drinking bender.
These findings are based on survey results collected from 944 low-income students at two vocational schools in the Netherlands. The students ranged in age from 15 to 25, with an average age of 18. The study authors, public health experts in Rotterdam, focused on these kids because risky health behaviors are more common in this cohort, they wrote.
Risky music-listening behavior was defined as listening to music at 89 dBA for at least an hour per day, based on a report from the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks. (dBA is short for decibel A-weighting, a measure of environmental noise.) That music exposure can cause noise-induced hearing loss, or NIHL; people with this condition often have “increased feelings of isolation, depression, loneliness, anger, and fear,” according to the study.
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Yeah, so? 
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BTA, I'm not a teenager anymore. 
I remember walking out of a Springsteen concert in '78 feeling like I had a bale of cotton wrapped around my head, and this lasted for several hours.
It must have been good. 
From the Guinness Book of World Records, Special Edition, 1986:
"Loudest Pop Group
The amplification for The Who concert at Charlton Athletic Football Ground, London, England, May 31, 1976, provided by a Tasco PA system had a total power of 76,000 watts from eighty 800W Crown DC 300A amplifiers and twenty 600W Phase Linear 200s. The readings at 50 meters (164 ft) from the front of the sound system were 120 decibels."
Leave it to THE WHO to simultaneously be the best, the worst and the loudest rock band in the world.
and set in west. Film at eleven.
