What would Derek Marks made of Dame Sally's strictures?

With the Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, now warning us that a pint of Harveys is sure to kill us prematurely, I did enjoy reading the journalist Robin Esser's memoir 'Crusader in Chains' about the golden days of Fleet Street.
No profession (actually is journalism a profession?) had a greater drink culture than journalism prior to the move to Wapping.
Robin Esser describes a typical day accompanying Derek Marks, editor of the Express just as its heyday was beginning to end. By all accounts Derek was an excellent political reporter before reaching the giddy heights of editor, but in the Fleet Street custom of drinking was an expert-

'I would occasionally be summoned to lunch with Derek. From the office we would go to El Vino, where we would consume a bottle of champagne. Then onto the Boulestan in Covent Garden, where we sit at the bar choosing our food while sipping a Paris goblet of dry sherry (kept in the fridge especially for him.)
At lunch we would have a bottle of Chablis with our first course, one or two bottles of claret with our main, finishing up with cognacs and coffee.
We would then return to Fleet St, passing the Express building, stopping at Poppins. Derek would knock on the door of the pub* and the landlord would open up for us. Over several glasses of port he and Derek would discuss which horses to back in the later races that afternoon.
After that we would walk back to the office. Derek would have a restorative Bovril, continue at work for the rest of the afternoon, before heading home for supper (with a bottle of claret) prepared by his loving wife. He would then return to the office, inspect the first edition, make suggestions for improvements, before strolling over to the Press Club where the barman had been preparing gin and sours which Derek would consume until midnight.'

Dame Sally would be pleased to hear that Derek Marks only did this six times a week (he did not edit the Sunday Express after all).

*Licensing laws meant pubs were closed in the afternoons until Tony Blair's liberalising reforms