From the "everything causes cancer" department, a member of the New York City Council is pushing for people to avoid certain cell phones because of the evil death rays they emit.

If you don't want an earful of radio waves, stay far away from two Motorola cellphones, City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz advised yesterday.

She released a list of nearly 400 cellphone models, along with the amount of potentially cancer-causing emissions absorbed through the ears of people who use them without headsets...

If she has her way, all manufacturers will include the numbers on their advertisements, on their boxes and right on the phones themselves.

She noted the "the jury is still out" on whether cellphones cause cancer.

Last May, the magazine Neurology reported finding no clear connection between cellphones and brain cancer.

Still, Moskowitz suggested cellphone use may turn out to be just as unhealthy as lighting up.

"They used to say that cigarettes weren't bad for you, but we know about that now," she said.

"There are 175 million Americans who use cellphones, and 69 percent of New Yorkers use them every day. We don't want to find out down the road that we've been doing damage to ourselves." [...]

"I definitely don't want to learn later that these things cause cancer."