Chen Chien-jen, now vice-chairman of the National Science Council, recently released a study on hepatitis-B in Taiwan, which points out that if hepatitis-B carriers continue to drink heavily (or smoke or chew betelnut), they have a 19 times greater chance of getting liver cancer.
國科會副主委、台大公共衛生學院教授陳建仁近日發表的〈台灣地區 B 型肝炎公共衛生研究〉指出，B 肝帶原者若繼續抽煙、酗酒、嚼檳榔，罹患肝癌的比例比一般帶原者高出十九倍。