The Journal of Consumer Affairs articles from December 1995

The Journal of Consumer Affairs archives from December 1995

Consumer comprehension of environmental advertising and labeling claims.
December 22, 1995... Consumer interest in "green" products has expanded over the last several years and is expected to grow further in the near future. For example, a 1992 survey reported that 73 percent of consumers said they were at least sometimes influenced by...

Risk-benefit analysis of cigarette smoking: public policy implications.
December 22, 1995... Cigarette smoking has been an acceptable consumption activity since the seventeenth century. However, the relationship between health and cigarette smoking was not investigated to any great extent until the twentieth century. Researchers...

Consumer utilization of food labeling as a source of nutrition information.
December 22, 1995... Issues associated with food labeling are having a significant impact on the food industry (Henley 1992). Several researchers recently have focused on some of these issues. Caswell (1992) conducted a study on the current level of information on...

Health knowledge and nutritional adequacy of female heads of households in the United States.
December 22, 1995... Over the last decade, a large number of studies have attempted to identify the influence of socioeconomic factors on individuals' nutrient intake. This literature provides insightful explanations of what determines nutrient consumption patterns,...

Consumer unit types and expenditures on food away from home.
December 22, 1995... For a long time marketers and other social scientists have been interested in the relationship between household or family type and buyer behavior. At the applied level, companies like the McDonald's Corporation have used family type as a...

Consumer preferences for size description systems of men's and women's apparel.
December 22, 1995... When a consumer purchases a garment by mail order or in a store, a size label (or tag) provides information about the size before the consumer actually tries on the garment. If the consumer is to select the correct garment size efficiently, the...

Toward consumer efficiency: a model for improved buymanship.
December 22, 1995... Seventy years ago, alert consumers were challenged to identify acceptable product quality as the basis for their purchase decisions. Product quality varied widely, and distribution alternatives were limited. Today's shoppers face a vastly...

Forecasting the future of consumer programs in higher education.
December 22, 1995... Are academic programs with a consumer emphasis soon to be a thing of the past? Conversations with colleagues around the country certainly lead one to be pessimistic about the future of the field. Yet, this sense of impending doom is based...