What do you think are the long term effect of wearing ear-buds and listening to music constantly? What can you do to help prevent any negative effects?

The long term effect of wearing ear-buds and listening to music constantly is prolonged exposure to loud sounds can actually injure or kill your cilia. Once damaged or killed by loud sound, the cilia are unable to heal or grow back, and as a result your hearing is permanently damaged. You can avoid negative effects by not listening to music contently, also make sure the volume is low, good enough for you to hear not the loud so everyone can hear.