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16 August 2017

The deafening killer – why noise will be the next great pollution scandal

A growing body of evidence shows that noise can have serious health impacts too. 

By Adam Swersky

Our cities are being poisoned by a toxin that surrounds us day and night. It eats away at our brains, hurts our hearts, clutches at our sleep, and gnaws at the quality of our daily lives.

Hardly a silent killer, it gets short shrift compared to the well-publicised terrors of air pollution and sugars food. It is the dull, thumping, stultifying drum-beat of perpetual noise.

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