The city-wise distribution of the sample for each category of the data collected
| Cities | The consumer survey | The waste recycle store survey | |||
| Estimated sample size | Participants | Cigarette packs collected (%) | Cigarette packs collected | Cigarette packs randomly selected | |
| Karachi | 2293 | 2122 | 1026 (48) | 2545 | 2232 |
| Lahore | 1720 | 1654 | 545 (33) | 6760 | 1720 |
| Faisalabad | 500 | 496 | 252 (51) | 2378 | 505 |
| Rawalpindi | 320 | 307 | 120 (39) | 1200 | 318 |
| Islamabad | 160 | 160 | 51 (32) | 1042 | 161 |
| Gujranwala | 320 | 305 | 116 (38) | 1100 | 324 |
| Peshawar | 300 | 295 | 33 (11) | 1200 | 287 |
| Multan | 280 | 276 | 101 (37) | 448 | 274 |
| Hyderabad | 260 | 249 | 145 (58) | 386 | 232 |
| Quetta | 160 | 150 | 27 (18) | 350 | 160 |
| Total | 6313 | 6014 | 2416 (40) | 17 409 | 6213 |