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Take a Tour of the Human Body & Amazing Stories Your Doctor is Afraid to Tell You

Something You Should Know

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What Is It About the Throat?

The job of our throats is to keep everything but air out of the air way. We swallow thousands of times a day, whether we're eating food or subconsciously swallowing. When you laugh or speak while trying to swallow, you're kind of opening up the airway. Coughing is mechanism for kind of clearing out whatever goes down the wrong tube.

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