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the most common cancers of smoking/second hand smoke are heart and lung cancer, depending on how exposed you are to the smoke of a cigarette, you more than likey will not get cancer, unless your parent, grandparent may have cancer, then you may get some sort of cancer

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Yes it can. If you do smoke and don't get some sort of cancer then you are really lucky.

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Because you're breathing in the bad air in your body, so it's like smoking a cigarette but you're not. You're just breathing it in, but it still damages your lungs.

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