Study links chronic vaping to progressive lung damage Harvard Gazette Electronic cigarette vaping with aged coils causes acute lung injury in mice Archives of Toxicology Springer Nature Link E cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury in a Download Scientific Diagram 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.