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Alan Blum, MD

JAMA. 1980;244(12):1327-1328.

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ACROSS the country, people are raising the roof over noise. In New York, residents living under the flight paths of the supersonic Concorde jet made nearly 4,000 complaints to the Federal Aviation Administration in just the first year of landings. Fierce debates are raging over whether jet noise in areas surrounding airports can lead to birth defects^1,2 and excess mortality.^3,4

Nor does it take a sonic boom to rattle a good many persons. A recent issue of MAD Magazine featured coming attractions of the scariest possible horror movies one could imagine, among them, "The Invasion of the Transistor People." Theories behind the wave of rock-music-blasting radios on public transportation, along the sidewalk, and at the beach range from defiance of authority to just plain deafness.

Of course, one man's rock may be another's roil. Not long ago, a Kew Gardens, NY, man, whose complaints of stereo noise from . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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