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Geographic comparisons are very important to understand the causes of diseases. Most comparisons have been with mortality statistics as there is not much incidence data available. What is the difficulty for using mortality statistics . Hypothesis generating studies have compared that average per capita intake of smoking with lung cancer rates. What might be a difficulty of interpretation?