49 years, 1969 also. I was 13. Our biggest fear was having an arrest end up on our "permanent record". Funny thing is that my friends and I were confronted by police while smoking many times and successfully ran away each time. Now that I think about it, they were pretty fat and didn't spend much time out of their cars. We knew the town's storm sewer system and would hide there until the police got bored and left. Crazy.