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By inhaling the carcinogenic molecules that the smoker is exhaling. Even though the smokers body does take most of the carcinogens into their body, some of them remain in the convection currents in their lungs , when exhaled these particles float around in the air like bits of dust, waiting to be inhaled by someone else who's body will eventually absorb the cancerous particles into their blood.

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