Can vaping damage your lungs? What we do (and don't) know Harvard Health Reversible Lung Damage After Vaping What Does Vaping Do To Your Lungs Can Your Lungs Recover From Vaping Cigarettes Australia Vaping related pulmonary granulomatous disease ScienceDirect 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.