Behavioral Exposures

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Chewing betel quid,
    • Primarily done in India and southeast Asia
  • Coal,
    • Indoor emissions from household combustion of coal
  • Eating infected raw or undercooked fresh water fish from southeast Asia , China, and Korea
  • Eating salted fish,
    • Chinese style
  • Eating raw or under cooked freshwater fish which contain the infective stage of flukes
  • Medical patients,
    • Exposures from medical treatment, such as medications and radiation
  • Sexual activity,
    • Exposures to biologics such as HIV, HPV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C
  • Tobacco,
    • Smokeless usage
  • Tobacco smoking
  • Tobacco smoking, parental smoking,
    • Including preconception and pregnancy
  • Tobacco smoking,
    • Second-hand smoke
  • Using chinese herbs,
    • Aristolochic acid
  • UV-emitting tanning devices