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If there's a blockage of this channel, like when you have a stuffy nose due to the flu or a cold, odors can't get to the sensory cells the smells stimulate. This results in you losing a lot of your ability to taste the flavor of food. In this manner, your senses of taste and smell work closely together.
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It will affect your smell because you can have a lot of snot in your nose and your nose will be stopped up with all that stuff.
