Your explanation was right. He simply moves the cigarette with his lips. You can clearly see his face is slightly contorted when he faces the crowd again. You are correct. Stick to your guns
When he presents in profile view, you can just barely detect that his jaw is cranked to his left (towards the audience.) As he turns his head, he moves his jaw over to the right. His bottom lip slides across while his top lip stays in place, essentially rolling the cigarette over, doing the same movement your fingers would do.
you were originally right. he's just also rolling it in his mouth. he only ever shows one side of it. when he's side ways he has it facing the camera. he rolls it a quarter turn as he's moving to face the camera. notice how his head always aims down so you can't see the backside.
You want to know how to do this kind of s*** well, I got bad news for you. You should have played with cards as a kid. I never watched any of these videos cuz I was born in the '80s and somehow hardly played any cards after I was 13. But I'm glad I knew how to play cards cuz I had to take a 90-day vacation and let me tell you something. I never want to play pinochle or spades ever again
Erm.... The filter paper has a slightly bigger radius, than the cigarette, a weight within the filter and he can blow it along the length of the cigarette? 🤔