Estefania Garces, a senior at Manchester College who quit smoking this fall, has received a $1,500 incentive to reward her good work from the Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Commission at the Indiana State Department of Health.
The Elkhart native and two other Indiana residents were randomly chosen from more than 4,800 Hoosiers who entered the 2011 Quit Now Indiana Contest. Garces received her prize for remaining tobacco-free for at least 31 days, and proving it with a test.
She is a biology-chemistry major who plans to become a physician.
