Israeli Legislator Ends Tax Hike Hunger Strike

[briarfriar]

Likud MK Yehuda Glick announced Saturday that he would end a 25-day hunger strike that he launched to press the finance minister to raise the tax on loose tobacco to match that of cigarettes.
“To avoid harming my health and following many appeals from my family and partners in this struggle, I have decided to end my hunger strike after 25 days,” Glick wrote on Twitter. “The struggle will go on.”

Read all about it in The Times of Israel here.

 

[aldecaker]

Pity. No one likes a quitter.

 

[brian64]

If he had starved himself to death it would no doubt have been added to the statistics of tobacco-caused deaths.

 

[perdurabo]

:rofl:
Pity, The Minister didn’t die.

 

[woodsroad]

I wonder if he was allowed to smoke during the hunger strike?