ところで、ベトナムに限らず、東南アジア、いや日本以外のアジア諸国では、「床屋に行く」と表現すると、ちょっと風俗遊びに行くと言う意味合いの国もあるようです。ここ、ベトナムでも「ハサミの置いていない床屋」、怪しげな女性たちが見せ前にたむろしているようなお店が目に付きます。どんなお店なのかは不明ですが(本当ですよ!)・・・。
私は「ハサミの置いてある床屋」に行きたいと思います。
ベトナム社会主義共和国・ホーチミン市に在住して10年目を迎えた私の個人日記です(Japanese Language Only-Sometimes, English or Vietnamese)
今週は「タバコ」についての意見です。
As a light smoker, I think that smoking scenes don't promote the habit of smoking. It depends on each person's situation.
Tobacco is a luxury good and indispensable for some kind of films such as action films, war films and so on.
I think it must involve the social responsibility of film-makers to enlighten smokers regarding the harmful influence of smoking to non-smokers, especially for babies and pregnant women. That means film-makers should not only prohibit smoking but also should enlighten smokers where to smoke. In my opinion, Vietnamese smokers don't follow the rule in public. They smoke everywhere, all the time... It's a big problem not only for non-smokers but also smokers.
The present policy of Viet Nam is suitable one. How about increasing the price of tobacco such as in the US, Singapore, Japan? In Japan, the number of smokers has decreased because of the price of tobacco and the decrease in the number of places where people can smoke in public. How about adding terrible photos of lung cancer, pharyngeal cancer caused by smoking on the package such as in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia? I think that may decrease the number of smokers. — VNS