Noise can cause hearing impairment, interfere with communication, disturb sleep, cause cardiovascular and psycho-physiological effects, reduce performance, and provoke annoyance responses and changes in social behavior. The main social consequence of hearing impairment is the inability to understand speech in normal conditions, which is a severe social handicap. In the developed world, noise induced hearing loss is caused largely by noise at work. For more information, go to the World Health Organization (WHO) website on occupational and community noise at:\r
. This is clipped from the 1935 cartoon, Stop That Noise, starring Betty Boop.