['conclusively', 'establish', 'on', 'this', 'motion', 'to', 'dismiss', 'that', 'Plaintiffs', 'should', 'have', 'been', 'aware', 'of', 'the', 'fraud', 'many', 'years', 'ago,', 'nor', 'can', 'they', 'show,', 'as', 'a', 'matter', 'of', 'law,', 'that', 'Plaintiffs', 'failed', 'to', 'exercise', 'reasonable', 'diligence', 'under', 'the', 'circumstances.', 'As', 'in', 'Lead', 'Industries,', 'this', 'Court', 'must', 'conclude', 'that', 'for', 'purposes', 'of', 'this', 'motion,', 'the', 'Funds’', 'fraud-based', 'claims', 'have', 'been', 'timely', 'commenced.', 'B.', 'There', 'is', 'More', 'Than', 'Ample', 'Evidence', 'to', 'Indicate', 'That', 'the', 'Funds’', 'Fraud-Based', 'Claims', 'Were', 'Commenced', 'Within', 'the', 'Appropriate', 'Limitations', 'Period', ' ', 'Defendants', 'devote', 'sixty', 'pages', 'of', 'their', 'Brief', 'as', 'well', 'as', 'over', '300', 'exhibits', 'in', 'an', 'attempt', 'to', 'convince', 'this', 'Court', 'that', 'the', 'Funds', 'had', 'notice', 'of', 'the', '“dangers', 'and', 'costs', 'associated', 'with', 'smoking”', 'based', 'upon', 'the', '“public', 'record”', 'dating', 'back', 'to', 'the', "1800's.", 'Def.', 'Br.', 'at', '2-3,', '6-66.', 'All', 'of', 'these', '“facts”', 'however,', 'are', 'really', 'nothing', 'more', 'than', 'allegations', 'and', 'suspicions', 'regarding', 'the', 'gravamen', 'of', 'the', 'Funds’', 'Complaint:', 'that', 'Defendants,', 'despite', 'their', 'promise', 'to', 'make', 'people’s', 'health', 'their', '“paramount”', 'responsibility,', 'deliberately', 'hid', 'their', 'knowledge', 'of', 'the', 'disastrous', 'health', 'consequences', 'of', 'the', 'use', 'of', 'tobacco', 'products,', 'expended', 'millions', 'of', 'dollars', 'in', 'order', 'to', 'confuse,', 'deceive', 'and', 'mislead', 'Plaintiffs', 'concerning', 'the', 'health', 'effects', 'of', 'their', 'products,', 'and', 'conspired', 'with', 'each', 'other', 'to', 'manipulate', 'nicotine', 'levels,', 'refrain', 'from', 'marketing', 'safer', 'products', 'and', 'carry', 'on', 'the', 'deception', 'as', 'a', 'united', 'front.', '‘Defendants', 'continue', 'to', 'maintain', 'to', 'this', 'very', 'day', 'that', 'tobacco', 'products', 'do', 'not', 'cause', 'cancer', 'or', 'other', 'disease,', 'See', 'Minnesota', 'v.', 'Philip', 'Morris,', 'No.', 'C', '1-94-8565,', '1998', 'WL', '85586', '(Minn.', 'Dist.', 'Ct.,', 'Ramsey', 'County', 'March', '2,', '1998)', '(At', 'trial,', 'Geoffrey', 'Bible,', 'the', 'CEO', 'of', 'Philip', 'Morris', 'testified', 'that', 'he', 'had', 'publicly', 'stated', 'and', 'still', 'asserted', 'that', 'he', '“didn’t', 'know', 'if', 'cigarette', 'smoking', 'caused', 'lung', 'cancer', 'or', 'other', 'diseases.”', 'Jd.', 'at', '*15.),', 'Yet', 'Defendants', 'would', 'have', 'this', 'Court', 'dismiss', 'Plaintiffs’', 'claims', 'because,', 'as', 'they', 'allege,', 'Plaintiffs’', 'had', 'sufficient', 'knowledge', 'of', 'facts', 'which', 'Defendants', 'themselves', 'still', 'dispute!', 'ZC8C8CC8B']