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Actually, fire is the third least rediculously impossible of those; A build-up of volatile oils and gasses and some means of producing a spark and you're throwing flame, baby! Can be through some sort of internal mechanism, or maybe a gullet with a load of spark-producing rocks that gets churned and squeezed.In RPGs, which all these swords-and-sorcery worlds are usually based on, they breathe anything. I’m pretty sure every single one of your examples is in one edition or another of D&D, along with other things like mud and poison, because frankly breathing fire is already ridiculously impossible enough to justify anything else instead.
Poison is the least, simply because bad breath already exists and Komodo Dragons weaponize theirs already. The only change really is building up a pocket of it and then aerosolizing it, which would be a really unique form.
Earth would be second least, because projectile vomiting is already a thing; in fact, turkey vultures can vomit up to 3 meters! Scale things up, have a special gullet for holding stones and dirt and such, and voila; earth breath!
Of course there's always magical sourcing of materials, but that's not as fun...