( April 28, 2026, 1:41 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts federal judge granted in part a motion to dismiss filed by two tobacco companies and two retail companies facing a lawsuit by a smoker’s widow, dismissing the widow’s claim that the defendants engaged in a “power of coercion” conspiracy by “saturating the information environment” with false claims about smoking, including while distributing cigarettes to servicemembers in Vietnam, but allowed her other claims to proceed....