( June 29, 2026, 11:45 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — A smoker’s widower filed an appellee brief urging the Massachusetts Appeals Court to affirm most of a judgment in his favor worth more than $86.6 million on wrongful death claims against a tobacco company for causing his wife’s addiction to cigarettes and death from lung cancer, defending the judgment based on both a jury verdict and a judge’s award of additional damages for unfair and deceptive acts, but agreeing that $4.1 million in compensatory damages should be vacated as duplicative....