A Case of E cigarette or Vaping Product Use Associated Lung Injury Mimicking Miliary Tuberculosis Cureus Vaping and Popcorn Lung Medicine.com It's official. Flavored e cigarettes cause permanent lung damage. And doctors are already seeing it happen. In the United States, a teenager developed something called popcorn lung after secretly vaping for three years. Vaping Related Illness and Lung Disease NEJM How to Detox Lungs from Vaping: A Smoker's Guide Vaping and smoking together increases lung cancer risk fourfold