The same research group studied 259 salt miners in five mines with different diesel exposures

Selected indoor home concentrations of various semivolatile PAH compounds for 33 homes in Californiaand Ohio ranged from 9.2 to 210 ng/m3 for phenanthrene, 0.29 to 1100 ng/m3 for quinoline, 2.40 to 37.4 ng/m3 for fluoranthrene, and 0.00 to 4.13 ng/m3 for benzo[a]pyrene . Concentrations were higher in homes with tobacco smoking. Phenanthrene, for example, was…