Global Environment and Trade Study Global Environment and Trade Study The Global Environment & Trade Study (GETS) was a non-profit research institute established in 1994 to study the complex linkages between international trade and environmental sustainability. GETS supported numerous research projects on the legal, economic, and ecological aspects of trade and environment. GETS was centered at Yale University. GETS also studied the expanding role of civil society in global governance. In 2004, the GETS Board decided that a sufficient amount had been accomplished over the decade, and that it was time to terminate the project. GETS had four major accomplishments: The founders of GETS were:
1950 Wynder and Graham Study to the segmentation of risk groups by quantity smoked and the period of tobacco usage. Also, this study sought to reduce confounding variables and selection bias. The key finding of the study was that of the men in the study, men with lung cancer were more likely to be long-term smokers than those without the disease. Thus, researchers concluded that smoking is responsible for the onset of bronchogenic carcinoma, but did not establish a causal relationship between smoking cigarettes and developing lung cancer. There was also an evident dose-response relationship: as average daily cigarette consumption increased, so did the amount