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Can you breathe while choking

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This would follow the same principal as swallowing when your upside down. Because humans swallow because of muscles in the pharynx and esophagus, not because of gravity, it must possible to choke when you are upside down.

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No, you cannot breathe while choking. this is because whatever it is that you are choking on, will block the wind pipe inside your throat, preventing the flow of air down the pipe.

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