White hairs

I recently discovered another white hair on my head. John says that white hairs are badges of honor, that we earn them through strife. I say that's bunk. To me, white hairs are enemy combatants, enemies of the state, and other war-related nouns that I can't think of. Not unlike prisoners of war (there's another one), they are shown no mercy. I separate them from the pack and throw them in the bin. But here's my question: is it true, as Sex and the City tells us, that when you pull a white hair ten more come to its funeral?