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Posted by ChuckS on October 02, 2000 at 12:28:21:

In Reply to: An explanation from the OPAP website....... posted by Barb (Seattle) on September 28, 2000 at 23:07:43:

When you inhale, you create a vacuum in your lungs to pull in the air. When the OPAP is operating, if the throat is obstructed, the low pressure point would be the outside air, out the nose. It would take more pressure than the outside air pressure to open the throat. The body must block it somehow.

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