Is Vaping Better Than Smoking? American Heart Association Vaping and Popcorn Lung Medicine.com Vaping Related Illness and Lung Disease NEJM How to Detox Lungs from Vaping: A Smoker's Guide 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.