If phones really do cause cancer, but only at high exposure, employing such a generous definition of regular use means that the effect might be diluted into undetectability.

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To have continued with the RPI would in effect be to carry on making benefits more generous, rather than retaining their real value.

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Though the customs have indicative limits, these are so generous (for example 90 litres of wine) and so laxly implemented that they have little effect.

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