I am glad that there are people doing research on this. For a long time, I have suspected that people of my generation and younger (i.e. people under 40), are

I am glad that there are people doing research on this. For a long time, I have suspected that people of my generation and younger (i.e. people under 40), are going to have a lot of hearing problems. As a musician, I have always been a bit paranoid about my hearing, so I use ear plugs when exposed to loud noises. But the amount of people I know that are already having hearing issues is shocking. Looking back, I can only assume it is because they always had headphones on, and the were always far too loud. It was worse once we started driving. People would blast music as loud as the speakers would allow.