Example Sentences:

Ramayana:  Vibhishana explained to Rama that Indrajit’s beheading the Sita look-alike  was a smokescreen to gain time for doing  a sacrifice that would make him invincible.

Mahabharata:  The Pandavas suspected that Dhritarashtra’s request that they go and oversee the festivities at Varnavarta was just a smokescreen to get them away from the centre of power.

Bhagavad-gita:  Complaints about how tough life is, are often the mind’s smokescreen to impulse into self destructive forms of indulgence.