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What is a smokescreen?

What is a smokescreen? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.
  2. Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.
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Jargon is used to put up a smokescreen, hiding principles which are well within the grasp of the average citizen.
The effect is to blow away the smokescreen that Big Tobacco created to conceal its darker nature.
It's all a smokescreen, a diversionary tactic to take the focus off of certain questions those who failed this country that day don't want aired.
Sieuraj knocked Government's push for the passage of the police reform bills which he described as public relations tactics and a smokescreen.
I do find, because I work alongside lots of other artists and producers, that pretense could be a smokescreen for insecurity.
Happily, the spy flick trappings are a mere smokescreen for the film's clever satire of Middle American society and Cold War paranoia.

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