JIMBOOMBA smokers were none too impressed with the federal budget pushing up the cost of cigarettes but few would change their vote because of the move.
Under increased taxes in the budget, the price of cigarettes is expect to rise from about $26 a packet to about $40 in 2020.
North Maclean smoker and tradesman James Cowan said every political party taxed smokers hard.
He said the tax increase would not cause him to change his vote.
"Yes, the smoking tax stinks,'' he said. "But they've got to get their $4 billion from somewhere.''
Veresdale resident Bronwyn Noy said she would not change her vote and, as a partner of a smoker, had mixed opinions about the smoking tax.
She understood smokers were being taxed hard because of the financial pressure they put on the health system but believed others should contribute as well.
"I don't see why the smokers have to cover everyone," she said.
"In a way I thought yes (it was fair) and in a way no.
"You've got miners and other people in the hospital system too."
Ms Noy thought there should have been more expenditure on train lines for areas like Jimboomba and Beaudesert.
Rochedale South resident Steve Buchanan said he did not think it was a fair budget.
"They didn't spend enough on supporting the under privileged," he said.
"The only good thing is that they are taxing the rich but they should have spent more on saving the reefs."
The high cost of cigarettes is expected to cut smoking rates further which are already as low as 13 per cent.
Tax rises mean the government will match Labor's promise to increase tobacco excise over the next four years.