Exercise 03-15:
Write a program to calculate a smoker’s lifespan reduction. Ask how many cigarettes a day they smoke and how many years they have smoked. Consider that a smoker loses 10 minutes of life with each cigarette and calculate how many days of life the smoker will lose. Display the total in days.
Answer:
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# Python From Scratch
# Author: Nilo Ney Coutinho Menezes
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# Site: https://pythonfromscratch.com
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# File: chapter 03/exercise-03-15.py.py
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cigarettes_per_day = int(input("Number of cigarettes per day:"))
years_smoking = float(input("Number of years smoking:"))
reduction_in_minutes = years_smoking * 365 * cigarettes_per_day * 10
# One day has 24 x 60 minutes
reduction_in_days = reduction_in_minutes / (24 * 60)
print("Life time reduction %8.2f days." % reduction_in_days)