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A case-control study of pancreatic cancer and coffee drinking finds an odds ratio of 2.5 for heavy coffee drinkers. Investigators later realise that smokers both drink more coffee and have higher pancreatic cancer risk. What term best describes the distortion smoking introduces into the coffee-cancer association?
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Confounding

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