"dangling a cigarette"

[Daniel Davies]

Sorry for the offtopic meander, but it is powerfully early and my mind is
wandering. 

For some reason, the passage that caught my eye in "Hitchens: Dishonorable
Policeman of the Left" was this one:

"No, he is an industry, posing in trench coat with a cigarette dangling
from his top lip, 

[...]

Hitchens now sees himself as Orwell (who, as the cover of Orwell's Victory
reminds us, also dangled a cigarette from 
his top lip)"

How, anatomically, does one go about dangling a cigarette from one's top
lip?  I've been a smoker for about sixteen years, and I don't think I've
ever managed to dangle a cigarette from my top lip.  It would just fall out
of your mouth, surely?  Short of sticking the thing there with chewing gum,
I don't believe it's possible.  I've had a look at the picture of Orwell on
the front of Hitchens' book, and he certainly seems to be holding the
cigarette firmly in his mouth, like a normal person:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/071399584X.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Is this "dangling a cigarette from one's top lip" code for something?  I'm
confused.

dd


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