Argumentative Essay: Polonium In Cigarettes

As part of my final grade in my Focused Inquiry class, I was assigned to do an argumentative essay with a thesis pulled out from a synthesis paper that I did. The thesis was supposed to be supported with a media example which would help us with our reasoning. My synthesis paper topic was “Polonium in cigarettes” and therefore I decided to write about the under-representation of the publics common knowledge about radioactive smoke as a result of the tobacco industry’s concealing of evidence. As I was preparing to work on the essay I began to see that I was struggling with finding an appropriate media representation of this issue and questioned if I really wanted to write about my chosen topic. After failing to find a media representation and