Medical Professional Links 'Popcorn Lung' Disease to Vaping Montgomery Community Media Flavored e cigarettes are not harmless. Doctors are now seeing teens with permanent lung damage from vaping. In the U.S., a teenager developed popcorn lung after vaping in secret for three years. This A Warm, Buttery Flavor and a Risk of Irreversible Lung Damage Popcorn lung. Vaping lung injury. Lets stop confusing the two., Popcorn lung is the lazy name for bronchiolitis obliteransa disease of the small airways, not the alveoli. , It got its name from Outbreak of Lung Injury Associated with the Use of E Cigarette, or Vaping, Products Electronic Cigarettes Smoking & Tobacco Use CDC Does vaping cause Popcorn Lung? Vaperite