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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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I do find, because I work alongside lots of other artists and producers, that pretense could be a smokescreen for insecurity.
But conservationists see this as a smokescreen, saying that no other wildlife are targeted in this way.
What the transition from pounds and pence to euros and cents does is to provide a convenient smokescreen for a hike in prices.
They thought that it was a smokescreen to disguise the movement forwards of German troops.
Sieuraj knocked Government's push for the passage of the police reform bills which he described as public relations tactics and a smokescreen.
Jargon is used to put up a smokescreen, hiding principles which are well within the grasp of the average citizen.

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