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In addition, the amount of noise being delivered to our ears is undoubtedly much greater in cities than it is in the suburbs. This is caused by many factors, one of which is a problem of traffic and a great number of cars and other types of vehicles roaring down the streets at any time of day and night, but there are of course other factors, just to mention crowds of people, all sorts of noise made by factories, loud speakers, sirens and many more equally undesirable types of noise that damage our hearing.