A Case of E cigarette or Vaping Product Use Associated Lung Injury Mimicking Miliary Tuberculosis Cureus 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 increases the risk of lung disease by a third: U.S. study Reuters Vaping and smoking together increases lung cancer risk fourfold Vaping Related Illness and Lung Disease NEJM