[AndyJackson]

Meanwhile, Alaska—with limited healthcare infrastructure, the nation’s highest smoking rates, and months of darkness—records the lowest pancreatic cancer mortality at 15.2 per 100,000.

Have they adjusted for high consumption of alcohol in cold places without sunshine for long period of time and without darkness for long periods of time?

[VTenigma]

That’s a very interesting comment. I’ve had 4 friends die of it in recent years. They were not obese but had 1 thing in common, they all drank crummy domestic beer to excess and we live in a cold climate. What does the cold have to do with it?

[Glad2bnuts]

I am guessing consumption of Salmon above the normal for the lower 48. I wish we could get the 32 oz cans of salmon that we ate when we were kids. Mom used to make a salmon loaf, all the bones were in, but pressure cooked into a digestible and chewable form.