A statement indicating that a product or activity carries serious health risks.
we've had numerous health warnings that smoking is bad for us
figurative the book ought to carry a health warning
Example sentencesExamples
A general health warning was issued, and city residents began to get used to helicopters overhead spraying clouds of pesticides.
The product placement, meanwhile, is so blatant that the film should carry a public health warning.
This show should carry a government health warning that you might die laughing!
The practice of medicine is fraught with dangers and should carry a health warning for both patients and doctors.
In the 1980's, government's touted HIV as near enough a death sentence and in Britain issued public health warnings on television showing icebergs crashing into the sea.
The government is to force mobile phone companies to display a health warning on mobile phone packaging.
The record should carry a health warning: these performances are inimitable—do not attempt them at home.
Hope you enjoyed the weather and this week's health warning is: baby oil and sun don't mix.
The landmark report alerted citizens to the hazards of smoking and led to health warnings on cigarette packages, advertising restrictions, congressional investigations, and major legal challenges to the tobacco industry.
Liver specialists at Hope Hospital are leading a campaign for health warning labels on alcohol similar to those on cigarettes.