smoke screen

The fact is that Trump’s gripe about those in the press pool is just a smoke screen to humiliate, belittle and control the press.

Some critics have also accused the authorities of using the controversy as a smoke screen to divert attention from other pressing problems - like unemployment and pollution.

But that’s a smoke screen, since leading medical associations and physicians involved with pediatric and adolescent care support the therapies outlawed by the states as the legitimate standard of care for their patients.

Compassionate care, in fact, is nothing more than a smoke screen intended to hide coercion, structural inequalities and governments’ lack of social responsibility.

The company said panic buttons, alarms, smoke screens and security doors were all fitted at the shop.