The World Health Organization-led study called on young people to be more careful about their listening habits, and urged governments and manufacturers to do more to protect future hearing.
And 48 percent were found to have been exposed to unsafe noise levels at entertainment venues such as concerts or nightclubs. Dillard told AFP the best way for people to lessen their risk of hearing loss from headphones is to turn down the volume and listen for shorter periods.Headphone users should use settings. or apps on smartphones to monitor sound levels, Dillard advised.
"All of these behaviors, these exposures can compound over the course of your entire life, and then when you're 67 years old, it can have a pretty big impact," she said.
'the best way for people to lessen their risk of hearing loss from headphones is to turn down the volume and listen for shorter periods' Also the article talks about noise canceling headphones; That might be a good investment since it's kinda expensive.
WT_Faj
You could have done this study anytime from 1970 to now and the results would have been the same.