Can lung damage from vaping heal? Allen Carr's Easyway The Mysterious Vaping Illness That's 'Becoming an Epidemic' The New York Times Vaping: Safe? Or Are Your Lungs Going Up In Smoke? Recent medical research and case studies have increasingly linked vaping to bronchiolitis obliterans, a rare, irreversible, and potentially fatal lung disease often referred to as popcorn lung. This condition causes permanent scarring